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Orcas has been moved to http://orcas.dmitriid.com/

Project description etc etc can be accessed via project wiki at http://orcas.dmitriid.com/wiki

Opensource projects, eh? They make you involve in all sorts of things :) Thanks to the ever unpredictable Lady Luck, Anton Fedorov decided to bring the aforementioned erlsoap library up to date.

So the battle ensued between me and the shiny new 0.4 version of erlsoap. This version decided it didn't like RSDN's webservice. After some fruitful discussion with Anton a new, 0.4.1, version of erlsoap appeared. This version, however, didn't suit qrilka in the least :)) The problem lay with the inets library distributed with Erlang and used by erlsoap. Inets, as it turned out, doesn't support proxy authentication.

So what's a developer got to do? I geared up and went to hunt... ehm... to add support for a more advanced ibrowse library. As a result, I've officially added my first patch to an opensource project which even brought me a mention in the soapclient module in erlsoap's new version 0.4.2.

Now I'm tuly happy :)

Camrade qrilka has shown interest in Orcas. Right now we are not quite sure as to what is the best approach to SOAP in Erlang.

Since RSDN's webservice is quite small, one approach would be to implement all calls and parse all responses by hand. But that's boring, isn't it? :)

Today I've braced myself and went to war with erlsoap, which has been stagnating for the past two years. Well, you can check out the code yourself. The file is test_soap.erl, and you run it by

test_soap:run().

qrilka suggested that we use Smerl. This still leaves quite a lot to do by hand. Anyway, tomorrow, time permitting, we'll take a look into the matter.

Well, I've slowly started working on an offline client for RSDN.ru in Erlang.

Here's the project page: Orcas
Here's anouncement of the fact on RSDN (in Russian)