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Re: SOAP/XML Protocol and filtering, etc.

2001-05-07 21:50:02
On Mon, 07 May 2001 19:48:12 PDT, James Binder said:
Hey, could be a BEA, Computer Assoc., IBM; pick your poison!
Gary Miller said:
Yeah, like a Microsoft certificate from Verisign.  NOT!

The crucial difference here is that I'm not aware of BEA, CA,
or IBM being quite so publicly caught telling Verisign "yes,
that's a valid key request" and then having to ship patches
to work around the problems with CRL's.

I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned the issues with trying
to have a firewall filter SOAPAction's if the connection is
via https:// rather than http://.... 

                                Valdis Kletnieks
                                Operating Systems Analyst
                                Virginia Tech