In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Querying a local XML-RPC server
• Writing a multithreaded, multicall XML-RPC server
• Running an XML-RPC server with a basic HTTP authentication
• Collecting some photo information from Flickr using REST
• Searching for SOAP methods from an Amazon S3 web service
• Searching Amazon for books through the product search API
• Creating RESTful web applications with Flask