W00t! Wrote my first RPC app!

[NogginBoink]

Fellow programmers will appreciate this.

I've never really understood how RPC (remote procedure calls) work under Windows, so today I set out to write a simple RPC client/server app.

I wrote a server that sets up an RPC listening session, gets 2 numbers from the client, multiplies them, and sends the product back to the client.

It works!

Y'all will be thrilled to know that the computer across the network from me says the product of 12 and 13 is 156.

 

[Lonyo]

Aww! You're special

Anyway, nice, doubt a lot of people could do that, even if they thought themselves 1337. And hey, if you keep learning, maybe the skills can come in useful for getting a job.

Go you

 

[Descartes]

RPC is so.... passe It's all about SOAP/XML-RPC and service-oriented architectures with messages; not RPC calls.

I'm just kidding. I haven't delved into doing RPC calls by hand in quite some time, but it is exciting to see things like that work the way they should.

[edit]Oh, and man, anyone who cares about RPC will want to see the code! Post it [/edit]

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: Descartes
RPC is so.... passe It's all about SOAP/XML-RPC and service-oriented architectures with messages; not RPC calls. I'm just kidding. I haven't delved into doing RPC calls by hand in quite some time, but it is exciting to see things like that work the way they should. [edit]Oh, and man, anyone who cares about RPC will want to see the code! Post it [/edit]

Yeah, could you post your code? This sounds very interesting to me.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Congratulations -- makes you want to go crazy with the sockets and the HTTP and the flaven now doesn't it

That was one fun part of the dot-com bubble, getting consulting work to write ("plain HTTP" pre-SOAP) web services and some SMTP/POP code using winsock. It was also good prep for when we needed to use SOAP at work.

 

[ProviaFan]

Sounds interesting, though I don't know the slightest thing about what RPC is or what it does.

cout << "This is the extent of my programming knowledge.\n";