diff --git a/ipalib/plugins/b_xmlrpc.py b/ipalib/plugins/b_xmlrpc.py
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-# Authors:
-#   Jason Gerard DeRose <jderose@redhat.com>
-#   Rob Crittenden <rcritten@redhat.com>
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2008  Red Hat
-# see file 'COPYING' for use and warranty information
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 only
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-
-"""
-Backend plugin for XML-RPC client.
-
-This provides a lightwieght XML-RPC client using Python standard library
-``xmlrpclib`` module.
-"""
-
-import xmlrpclib
-import socket
-import httplib
-import kerberos
-from ipalib.backend import Backend
-from ipalib.util import xmlrpc_marshal
-from ipalib import api
-from ipalib import errors
-
-class xmlrpc(Backend):
-    """
-    XML-RPC client backend plugin.
-    """
-
-    def get_client(self):
-        """
-        Return an xmlrpclib.ServerProxy instance (the client).
-        """
-        # FIXME: Rob, is there any reason we can't use allow_none=True here?
-        # Are there any reasonably common XML-RPC client implementations
-        # that don't support the <nil/> extension?
-        # See: http://docs.python.org/library/xmlrpclib.html
-        uri = self.env.xmlrpc_uri
-        if uri.startswith('https://'):
-            return xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(uri,
-                transport=KerbTransport(),
-            )
-        return xmlrpclib.ServerProxy(uri)
-
-    def forward_call(self, name, *args, **kw):
-        """
-        Forward a call over XML-RPC to an IPA server.
-        """
-        self.info('Forwarding %r call to %r' % (name, self.env.xmlrpc_uri))
-        client = self.get_client()
-        command = getattr(client, name)
-        params = xmlrpc_marshal(*args, **kw)
-        try:
-            return command(*params)
-        except socket.error, e:
-            raise
-        except xmlrpclib.Fault, e:
-            err = errors.convertFault(e)
-            raise err
-        return
-
-api.register(xmlrpc)
-
-class KerbTransport(xmlrpclib.SafeTransport):
-    """Handles Kerberos Negotiation authentication to an XML-RPC server."""
-
-    def get_host_info(self, host):
-
-        host, extra_headers, x509 = xmlrpclib.Transport.get_host_info(self, host)
-
-        # Set the remote host principal
-        h = host
-        hostinfo = h.split(':')
-        service = "HTTP@" + hostinfo[0]
-
-        try:
-            rc, vc = kerberos.authGSSClientInit(service,
-                                                kerberos.GSS_C_DELEG_FLAG |
-                                                kerberos.GSS_C_MUTUAL_FLAG |
-                                                kerberos.GSS_C_SEQUENCE_FLAG)
-        except kerberos.GSSError, e:
-            raise kerberos.GSSError(e)
-
-        try:
-            kerberos.authGSSClientStep(vc, "");
-        except kerberos.GSSError, e:
-            raise kerberos.GSSError(e)
-
-        extra_headers = [
-            ("Authorization", "negotiate %s" % kerberos.authGSSClientResponse(vc) )
-            ]
-
-        return host, extra_headers, x509