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5 unusual facts about RPC


DCEThreads

DCE/RPC was under development, but the POSIX committee had not finalised POSIX threads at the time.

Mutalyzer

The Mutalyzer server supports programmatic access via a SOAP Web service described in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and an HTTP/RPC+JSON web service.

Señorita Panamá 1991

The pageant was broadcast live on RPC Panamá and produced with the collaboration of Venevision.

Señorita Panamá 2001

The pageant was broadcast on September 10th through RPC Panamá Channel 4.

XML-RPC

The generic use of XML for remote procedure call (RPC) was patented by Phillip Merrick, Stewart Allen, and Joseph Lapp in April 2006, claiming benefit to a provisional application filed in March 1998.


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Burrows–Abadi–Needham logic

The original Logic of Authentication paper (linked below) contains this example and many others, including analyses of the Kerberos handshake protocol, and two versions of the Andrew Project RPC handshake (one of which is defective).

Domain/OS

Though RPC was later end-of-lifed with the operating system, HP contributed RPC to the Open Software Foundation, which incorporated its Interface Definition Language (IDL) into their DCE product, from which the same technology was later used for CORBA.

Java remote method invocation

The Java Remote Method Invocation (Java RMI) is a Java API that performs the object-oriented equivalent of remote procedure calls (RPC), with support for direct transfer of serialized Java objects and distributed garbage collection.

Jayrock

Jayrock allows clients such as client-side web page JavaScript, to be able to call into server-side methods using JSON as the wire format and JSON-RPC as the procedure invocation protocol.

Maxelende Ganade

Justino 'Ning" Romea, a writer of the Bohol Chronicle and composer of the RPC Song (now the UB Hymn) and the Bohol Provincial School of Nursing Hymn, was commissioned to pen the Bohol Provincial Hymn.

Nucleus CMS

XML-RPC interface: Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs: Nucleus provides implementations of the Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType APIs allowing Nucleus CMS can be used with tools like w.Bloggar, Ecto, Zempt, ...

Port 135

in Internet — Remote procedure call (RPC), a communication process that allows for executing a subroutine or procedure in another address space

Revolutionary Policy Committee

In 1934 there was a split in the ILP as some of the opponents of the RPC, led by John Middleton Murry and Elijah Sandham, left to form the Independent Socialist Party.

UserLand Software

SOAP evolved from XML-RPC and was designed as an object-access protocol by Dave Winer, Don Box, Bob Atkinson, and Mohsen Al-Ghosein in 1998, with backing from Microsoft, where Atkinson and Al-Ghosein worked at the time.

VLC media player

However, it does not do the same on RPC-2 firmware drives, as in these cases the region coding is enforced by the drive itself, however, it can still brute-force the CSS encryption to play a foreign-region DVD on an RPC-2 drive.


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