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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:56 pm, Alaric Snell wrote: > > Can you point me to an RPC interface where a robot can, without > > knowing the methods, walk through the data and find other RPCs > > and, without knowing any methods, walk through the data and find > > RPC and, .... > > CORBA. If the server ORB is set up to do so, IIRC, you can ask it > for the IDL (IDL ~= schema) of a given IOR (IOR ~= URL). Then you > can call every method that has no arguments and returns something > containing other IORs - for methods with no arguments are equivelant > to HTTP GET-able URLs. And you can tell from the type declaration > whether a method will return any other IORs at all, so avoid > spidering method results that aren't going to contain any further > links. ... and of course, some of the ORBS provide HTTP gateway capabilities to tunnel IIOP over HTTP
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