# XML-RPC Problem?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-problem/107142>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 18, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-problem/107142 "2007-06-18T15:54:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![daisagah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@daisagah](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/daisagah)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/xml-rpc-problem/107142/1 "2007-06-18T15:54:10Z")

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Hello all?

I have a weird problem with xml-rpc. I’m trying to connect to a mailman  
listmanager via xml-rpc with SSL enabled to get all lists from it via an  
‘Mailman.listAllLists’ call (see code below). Whenever I try this I  
always get an End of File Error, with the error message on the list  
server:

(104)Connection reset by peer: ap\_content\_length\_filter:  
apr\_bucket\_read() failed

There is no difference in what kind of rpc command I try to call. The  
result is always the same. Even if I call procedures that don’t exist.  
I’ve already checked if the transmitted XML code ist correct via  
wireshark and a non SSL connection and everything seems to be in order.  
With Perl or Python I get the lists from the server, so there seems to  
be no problem with the list server.  
I’ve tested the code so far only on a PPC Mac with Ruby 1.8.5 from Rudix  
installed. I then tried the code on an Ubuntu Linux PC with Ruby 1.8.4  
installed but only got the same error message. So it seems that this is  
no problem with my mac but a generell problem with ruby or the  
xmllibrary. To verify this I copied the original and older xmlrpc  
library from my Mac (version 1.8.2) over the library of my recent Ruby  
installation and tadaaa now it works.

Allthough I have working code now, the situation isn’t protable and very  
dissatisfying. Is my code wrong or did the library change in a way I  
didn’t discern? Does anyone had the same problems and a working  
solution?

Here is my Code:  
require ‘xmlrpc/client’

begin

listserver =  
XMLRPC::Client.new2(“[https://myserver.mydomain.de/rpc/RPC2](https://myserver.mydomain.de/rpc/RPC2)”)  
pw = ‘mypass’  
lists = listserver.call(“Mailman.listAllLists”, pw)

puts lists  
rescue XMLRPC::FaultException =\> e  
puts e.faultCode  
puts e.faultString

rescue EOFError =\> sio  
print "An error occured: "  
puts sio.message  
end

The list server is a Debian 3.1 server with apache 2.0.54 and Mailman  
2.1.7 installed.

Thanks  
markus