Request: drop kxmlrpc daemon for 3.2

[Tobias Koenig]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:38:12AM +0200, Daniel Molkentin wrote:
> Hi!
Hi Danimo,

> After talking about the usefulness of the kxmlrpc daemon (localted in the 
> kdenetwork module) on IRC, we we figured:
> 
> 1. It's useless (requires the dcop cookie which "outsiders" cannot know about 
> and there is no alternative "real" authentication, which makes the whole 
> thing pointless for reallife purposes).
> 2. It's unmaintained, Kurt does no longer bear with the project and nobody 
> else cared so far.
> 3. It's a potential security thread to those who activate it (It is disabled 
> by default for very good reasons) and I don't think we should ship services 
> that are a potential security threat.
> 4. It is poorly implemented and has close to no fault tolerancy and likes 
> crashing at quite some "corner cases" (as reported by Tim Jansen who had a 
> closer look at it). I guess that's all the result of the fact that nobody 
> uses it, see 1. and recurse ;)
Removing the daemon is fine with me, but we should move the parsing code
to a library and add a XMLRPC creation code + network connection
handling, so that a KDE app can easily talk to XMLRPC servers.

Ciao,
Tobias
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