Using XmlRpc in C++ and Windows

Question

I need to use XmlRpc in C++ on a Windows platform. Despite the fact that my friends assure me that XmlRpc is a "widely available standard technology", there are not many libraries available for it. In fact I only found one library to do this on Windows, (plus another one that claims "you'll have to do a lot of work to get this to compile on Windows). The library I found was Chris Morley's "XmlRpc++". However, it doesn't have support for SSL.

My question therefore is: what library should I be using?

Answer 1

I've written my own C++ library. It's available at sourceforge: xmlrpcc4win

The reason I wrote it rather than using Chris Morley's was that:

• The Windows "wininet.lib" library gives you all the functionality for handling Http requests, so I'd rather use that. As a result, I only needed 1700 LOC.
• "wininet.lib", and therefore my implementation, supports HTTPS
• Chris Morley's use of STL containers was quite inefficient (Chris, mail me if you read this).