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===XML-RPC===
{{main|XML-RPC}}

Created in 1998 by UserLand Software and [[Microsoft]],<ref>{{cite web
 |last         = Box
 |first        = Don
 |title        = A Brief History of SOAP
 |publisher    = [[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly]]
 |date         = April 1, 2001
 |url          = http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html
 |access-date   = October 9, 2008
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20080915090248/http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/soap.html
 |archive-date = September 15, 2008
 |url-status     = dead
 |df           = mdy-all
}}</ref> XML-RPC is a [[remote procedure call]] protocol that uses [[XML]] to encode its calls and [[HTTP]] as a transport mechanism.<ref name="book1">{{cite book|author1=Simon St. Laurent|author2=Joe Johnston|author3=Edd Dumbill|title=Programming Web Services With Xml-Rpc|url=https://archive.org/details/programmingwebse00stla|url-access=registration|access-date=11 June 2012|year=2001|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media|O'Reilly Media, Inc.]]|isbn=978-0-596-00119-3}}</ref>

UserLand first included a stable XML-RPC framework with its 5.1.3 release of Frontier in August 1998<ref>{{cite web
| last = Userland
| title = Frontier 5.1.3 Change Notes
| work = Userland Frontier
| access-date =March 13, 2009
| date = August 16, 1998
| url = http://frontier.userland.com/changes/513
}}</ref> and subsequently made extensive use of XML-RPC in its Frontier-based products, Manila and Radio UserLand. XML-RPC is also used in the [[MetaWeblog]] API.