The URL is the API

Kumo weblog has several pointers and discussion of the URL as the API for the Web.

A common Weblog API for XML-RPC

There’s a proposal for an expanded, common XML-RPC API for weblogs that supports more than the requirements for Blogger and Manila sites. It includes methods for managing posts, categorization, user authentication, and comments.

iBlog

iBlog hooks up with Blogger through the native XML-RPC services in Mac OS.

Maintaining State in Web Services

While the example is .NET specific, there are some ideas on how to maintain state in web services that apply to other platforms.

Building Web Services with FIleMaker Pro

My article on building web services using XML, PHP and FileMaker Pro is now on XML.com. I recently started at Apple and my manager encouraged me to learn FileMaker since it’s our sister company, and we have many internal databases in FMPro. I was reading documentation in FileMaker’s site and found out it can return [...]

AppleScript SOAP Interface to Manilia

Another AppleScript web services application. Jarrett House North’s script will post text from TextEdit to a Manila weblog.

AppleScript XML-RPC Blogger Interface

It seems that everyone’s building apps off of the web services hooks in the AppleScript shipping with Mac OS X.1. A script from WebEntourage will post any selected text to a Blogger based weblog.

Perl module for pinging Weblogs.com

Aaron of Aaronland just published a Perl module for sending the update ping to Weblogs.com.

Making XML-RPC and SOAP Calls from AppleScript

[ via Scripting News ] Dave found the documentation before I did. But Apple Developer Connection has the goods on using XML-RPC and SOAP from AppleScript.

XML-RPC for PHP Security Alert

If you run the PHP implementation of XML-RPC from Sourceforge, please update to 1.01 due to a security issue.

Blogger XML-RPC API

This has been covered elsewhere, but Evan’s written an XML-RPC interface to post to Blogger.

XML-RPC Book Ships

Simon St.Laurent, Joe Johnston & Edd Dumbill’s book on XML-RPC ships.