I'm seeing strange things happen when I call GetEvents through xmlrpc.
Sometimes the connection simply closes with no response
Other times, I get what seems like otherwise proper XML, but with strange strings inserted like this:
HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:12:54 GMT Server: Apache Set-Cookie: ljuniq=5HTnztLtYkRSwZ1:1103501574; expires=Friday, 18-Feb-2005 00:12:54 GMT; domain=.livejournal.com; path=/ Content-Length: 228115 Content-Type: text/xml SOAPServer: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.55 Keep-Alive: timeout=30, max=100 Connection: keep-alive image/png <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><methodResponse><params>...what is that 'image/png' doing there? I put the request that generated the above reply here in the cut:
POST /interface/xmlrpc HTTP/1.0
Content-Type: text/xml
User-Agent: ljArchive; ljArchive@fawx.com
Content-Length: 3050
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: localhost:8080
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<methodCall>
<methodName>LJ.XMLRPC.getevents</methodName>
<params>
<param>
<value>
<struct>
<member>
<name>username</name>
<value>
<string>fg</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>auth_method</name>
<value>
<string>challenge</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>auth_challenge</name>
<value>
<string>c0:1103500800:773:60:yyNouJDLhVCjZ4z2KE8E:fa222e7508ece367fe68333942ed2574</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>auth_response</name>
<value>
<string>178a90205748b435df9d80cf40c757d1</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>ver</name>
<value>
<i4>1</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>truncate</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>prefersubject</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>noprops</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>selecttype</name>
<value>
<string>syncitems</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>lastsync</name>
<value>
<string>2002-10-29 10:13:22</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>year</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>month</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>day</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>howmany</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>beforedate</name>
<value>
<string />
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>itemid</name>
<value>
<i4>0</i4>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>lineendings</name>
<value>
<string>unix</string>
</value>
</member>
<member>
<name>usejournal</name>
<value>
<string />
</value>
</member>
</struct>
</value>
</param>
</params>
</methodCall>Any suggestions? Is there something suspect with my request or the request's http header?