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The protocol does not allow [[HTTPS]], but it is a common and obvious variation to use HTTPS in place of HTTP.

In comparison to [[REST]]fulRESTful protocols, where ''resource representations'' (documents) are transferred, XML-RPC is designed to ''call methods''. The practical difference is just that XML-RPC is much more structured, which means common library code can be used to implement clients and servers and there is less design and documentation work for a specific application protocol. One salient technical difference between typical RESTful protocols and

XML-RPC is that the RESTful protocol uses the HTTP URI for parameter information whereas with XML-RPC, the URI just identifies the server.