[wp-xmlrpc] XML-RPC and AtomPub to be disabled by default in 2.6

[Joe Cheng]

I finally got a chance this weekend to install the WP 2.6 beta and see how the user experience is when trying to configure to a blog that has XML-RPC disabled. The error message I got was this:

-32601: server error. requested method blogger.getUsersBlogs does not exist.

Needless to say, this is pretty deeply unhelpful for users--any chance we can get a custom error code and error message for this condition?

-----Original Message-----
From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Daniel Jalkut
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:18 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] XML-RPC and AtomPub to be disabled by default in 2.6

Thanks  for the heads up, Joseph! I added my thoughts to the bug, but
I'll repeat them here:

What a bummer. Terrible news for desktop clients. I hope the security
enhancing tradeoff is very high because this will be a support burden
on developers who are supporting users of desktop clients.

It's also worth noting that this will add friction to the process of
using a remote client with WordPress, and therefore make other systems
such as Blogger potentially more attractive to such users.

Daniel

On Jun 20, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Joseph Scott wrote:

>
> Big heads up here, XML-RPC and AtomPub will be disabled by default
> in WordPress 2.6.  The code for XML-RPC has already been added to -
> trunk and I'll be looking at the AtomPub code to figure out how best
> address that.
>
>       http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7157
>
> They are easily turned back on in wp-admin.
>
> --
> Joseph Scott
> joseph at randomnetworks.com
> http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/
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