Serialization across languages?

[Simon Brunning]

On 6/14/07, Tobiah <toby at tobiah.org> wrote:
> I want to do SOAP like calls from a device who's libraries
> don't include SOAP.  I'm thinking of using simple HTTP posts,
> but I'm going to want to send arrays and hashes.
>
> First, what do I need to be aware of when sending arbitrary
> data by a POST, and Second, is there a universally supported
> version of what python can do with pickle?  I mostly need
> python and PHP, but perl would be nice too.

JSON might be worth a look. There are libraries available for loads of
languages, and it's fairly human readable to boot.

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