xml-rpc is a set of specifications and a series of implementations that allow programs running in different operating systems and environments to make remote procedure calls based on the Internet.
This remote procedure call uses http as the transport protocol and xml as the encoding format for transmitting information. The definition of Xml-Rpc is kept as simple as possible, but at the same time it can transmit, process and return complex data structures.
Xml-rpc is a remote procedure call protocol that works on the Internet. An xml-rpc message is an http-post request with a request body of xml. The called method is executed on the server side and the execution result is returned after encoding it in xml format.
Procedure call parameters can be scalars, numbers, strings, dates, etc., or they can be complex records or list structures (array types).
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