<book lang="en">
<title>XML-RPC for PHP</title>
- <subtitle>version 3.0.0 beta</subtitle>
+ <subtitle>version 3.0.0</subtitle>
<bookinfo>
- <date>Sep 5, 2009</date>
+ <date>June 15, 2014</date>
<authorgroup>
<author>
functions and methods please take a look at the source code of the
library, which is quite thoroughly commented in javadoc-like form.</para>
+ <sect1>
+ <title>3.0.0</title>
+
+ <para><emphasis>Note:</emphasis> this is the last release of the library that will support PHP 5.1 and up.
+ Future releases will target php 5.3 as minimum supported version.</para>
+
+ <para><itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>when using curl and keepalive, reset curl handle if we did not get back an http 200 response (eg a 302)</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>omit port on http 'Host' header if it is 80</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>test suite allows interrogating https servers ignoring their certs</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>method setAcceptedCompression was failing to disable reception of compressed responses if the
+ client supported them</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ </itemizedlist></para>
+ </sect1>
+
<sect1>
<title>3.0.0 beta</title>
configuration.</para>
<para>The <emphasis>minimum supported</emphasis> PHP version is
- 5.0.</para>
-
- <para>Automatic generation of xml-rpc methods from php functions is only
- supported with PHP version 5.0.3 and later (note that the lib will
- generate some warnings with PHP 5 in strict error reporting mode).</para>
+ 5.1.</para>
<para>If you wish to use SSL or HTTP 1.1 to communicate with remote
servers, you need the "curl" extension compiled into your PHP
transparently carried out by the lib, while datetime vals are passed
around as strings).</para>
- <para>Known limitations: requires PHP 5.0.3 +; only works for
+ <para>Known limitations: only works for
user-defined functions, not for PHP internal functions (reflection
does not support retrieving number/type of params for those); the
wrapped php function will not be able to programmatically return an
<para>PHP-XMLRPC only supports the ISO 8859-1 and UTF8 character sets.
The net result of this situation is that those extra characters will not
be properly encoded, and will be received at the other end of the
- XML-RPC tranmission as "garbled data". Unfortunately the library cannot
+ XML-RPC transmission as "garbled data". Unfortunately the library cannot
provide real support for CP1252 because of limitations in the PHP 4 xml
parser. Luckily, we tried our best to support this character set anyway,
and, since version 2.2.1, there is some form of support, left commented
<filename>xmlrpc.inc</filename> (you can search for the string "1252"),
then set <code>$GLOBALS['xmlrpc_internalencoding']='CP1252';</code>
Please note that all incoming data will then be fed to your application
- as UTF-8 to avoid any potentail data loss.</para>
+ as UTF-8 to avoid any potential data loss.</para>
</sect1>
<sect1>