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+/* A demonstration of using HTTP basic authentication with XML-RPC.
+**
+** In general, you shouldn't write XML-RPC servers which require basic
+** authenticaion. (Few XML-RPC clients are capable of it, and it's not part of
+** any standard.) Instead, you should pass any authentication information
+** as a regular XML-RPC parameter (or look into using SSL).
+**
+** But certain XML-RPC servers, including Zope, rely heavily on HTTP
+** basic authentication. Here's how to talk to them. */
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+#include <xmlrpc-c/base.h>
+#include <xmlrpc-c/client.h>
+
+#include "config.h" /* information about this build environment */
+
+#define NAME "XML-RPC C Auth Client"
+#define VERSION "1.0"
+#define SERVER_URL "http://localhost:8080/RPC2"
+
+static void die_if_fault_occurred (xmlrpc_env *env)
+{
+ if (env->fault_occurred) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "XML-RPC Fault: %s (%d)\n",
+ env->fault_string, env->fault_code);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+}
+
+int
+main(int const argc,
+ const char ** const argv ATTR_UNUSED) {
+
+ xmlrpc_env env;
+ xmlrpc_server_info * server;
+ xmlrpc_value * result;
+ xmlrpc_int sum;
+
+ if (argc-1 > 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "There are no arguments. You specified %d", argc-1);
+ exit(1);
+ }
+
+ /* Start up our XML-RPC client library. */
+ xmlrpc_client_init(XMLRPC_CLIENT_NO_FLAGS, NAME, VERSION);
+ xmlrpc_env_init(&env);
+
+ /* Make a new object to represent our XML-RPC server. */
+ server = xmlrpc_server_info_new(&env, SERVER_URL);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+
+ /* Set up our authentication information. */
+ xmlrpc_server_info_set_basic_auth(&env, server, "jrandom", "secret");
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+
+ result =
+ xmlrpc_client_call_server(
+ &env, server, "sample.add", "(ii)",
+ (xmlrpc_int32) 5, (xmlrpc_int32) 7);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+
+ /* Dispose of our server object. */
+ xmlrpc_server_info_free(server);
+
+ /* Get the authentication information and print it out. */
+ xmlrpc_read_int(&env, result, &sum);
+ die_if_fault_occurred(&env);
+ printf("The sum is %d\n", sum);
+
+ /* Dispose of our result value. */
+ xmlrpc_DECREF(result);
+
+ /* Shut down our XML-RPC client library. */
+ xmlrpc_env_clean(&env);
+ xmlrpc_client_cleanup();
+
+ return 0;
+}