1 /* A demonstration of using HTTP basic authentication with XML-RPC.
3 ** In general, you shouldn't write XML-RPC servers which require basic
4 ** authenticaion. (Few XML-RPC clients are capable of it, and it's not part of
5 ** any standard.) Instead, you should pass any authentication information
6 ** as a regular XML-RPC parameter (or look into using SSL).
8 ** But certain XML-RPC servers, including Zope, rely heavily on HTTP
9 ** basic authentication. Here's how to talk to them. */
14 #include <xmlrpc-c/base.h>
15 #include <xmlrpc-c/client.h>
17 #include "config.h" /* information about this build environment */
19 #define NAME "XML-RPC C Auth Client"
21 #define SERVER_URL "http://localhost:8080/RPC2"
23 static void die_if_fault_occurred (xmlrpc_env *env)
25 if (env->fault_occurred) {
26 fprintf(stderr, "XML-RPC Fault: %s (%d)\n",
27 env->fault_string, env->fault_code);
34 const char ** const argv ATTR_UNUSED) {
37 xmlrpc_server_info * server;
38 xmlrpc_value * result;
42 fprintf(stderr, "There are no arguments. You specified %d", argc-1);
46 /* Start up our XML-RPC client library. */
47 xmlrpc_client_init(XMLRPC_CLIENT_NO_FLAGS, NAME, VERSION);
48 xmlrpc_env_init(&env);
50 /* Make a new object to represent our XML-RPC server. */
51 server = xmlrpc_server_info_new(&env, SERVER_URL);
52 die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
54 /* Set up our authentication information. */
55 xmlrpc_server_info_set_basic_auth(&env, server, "jrandom", "secret");
56 die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
59 xmlrpc_client_call_server(
60 &env, server, "sample.add", "(ii)",
61 (xmlrpc_int32) 5, (xmlrpc_int32) 7);
62 die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
64 /* Dispose of our server object. */
65 xmlrpc_server_info_free(server);
67 /* Get the authentication information and print it out. */
68 xmlrpc_read_int(&env, result, &sum);
69 die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
70 printf("The sum is %d\n", sum);
72 /* Dispose of our result value. */
73 xmlrpc_DECREF(result);
75 /* Shut down our XML-RPC client library. */
76 xmlrpc_env_clean(&env);
77 xmlrpc_client_cleanup();