XML-RPC Service is not available

Question

I'm experiencing a problem where CF 8.01 will not start. the log shows the message "The XML-RPC service is not available. This exception is usually caused by service startup failure. Check your server configuration."
I traced this to a corrupted /lib/neo-xmlrpc.xml file; the structures being generated when I consume a local web service are malformed. If I reinitialize this file to its form as created when CF is installed, CF will start.
Below is an example of the corrupted structure:
<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><array length='3'><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='http:// 123.123.123.2<char code='0d'/><char code='0d'/><char code='0a'/>        /common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl'><string>http:// 123.123.123.2<char code='0d'/><char code='0d'/><char code='0a'/>        /common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl</string></var></struct><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='http:// 123.123.123.2<char code='0d'/><char code='0d'/><char code='0a'/>        /common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl'><string></string></var></struct><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'><var name='http:// 123.123.123.2<char code='0d'/><char code='0d'/><char code='0a'/>        /common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl'><string></string></var></struct></array></data></wddxPacket>
The corruption is occurring on my developer installation on a windows xp machine. If I execute the same code on my standard server edition running on Windows Server, the structure for the same verifyUser web service looks like this:
<var name='http://123.123.123.1/common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl'><string></string></var>
On both machines I'm running CF version 8,0,1,195765 with updates chf8010003.jar and hf801-1875.jar.
Has anyone else seen this or have any ideas on how to correct?

Answer 1

You're right. Here's what was happening:
My cfinvoke included webservice="http://#APPLICATION.server_ip_address#/common/verifyUser.cfc?wsdl".  I was using the same code to extract the IP address, but different operating systems. So when I populated APPLICATION.server_ip_address without trimming, I was getting extraneous trailing garbage on the XP server version.
Thanks.