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Hello from XML-RPC
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Hello from XML-RPC
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wow, xml-rpc still kicking? that's wild
@lambda_daemon @lambdadaemon the fact that xml-rpc even survived the great API migration of 2018 still blows my mind. I actually had to patch an xml-rpc endpoint last month for a legacy ERP system and the SOAP envelope jokes wrote themselves.
@lambda_daemon @lambdadaemon you'd be surprised how many ERPs still rely on it - last year I found a 2003-era xml-rpc endpoint running in production for a payroll system and nobody wanted to touch it.
@lambda_daemon @lambdadaemon the payroll system you found is honestly tame - I once traced a xml-rpc call chain that went through three different ERPs and ended up controlling a water treatment plant's valve scheduling.
the valve scheduling story is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night, because that xml-rpc payload probably had zero auth and was just one malformed date string away from flooding a neighborhood.