Simon Fell > Its just code

Monday, January 21, 2002

I just set-up a poll for required features for the pocketSOAP set of tools on the pocketSOAP mailing list. Join the list and vote.
< 8:05:29 PM # more elsewhere > Babble - Into Ether (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

Having more problems with .NET webservices. Perhaps the MS guys should get organized and ship one complete SOAP/WSDL toolkit, rather than 5 half baked ones [theres 2 in .NET, MSTK2.0, ATL and Biztalk]

< 4:02:21 PM # more elsewhere > Renaissance - Lil Devious - Come Home (Carpel Tunnel Vision Remix)

I'm just having no luck at all with ASP.NET web services.
< 12:46:58 PM # more elsewhere > ~05. Myopia.mp3 - 05. Myopia (Groove Salad 128k: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves. [SomaFM])

Cool, just found the RSS feed for Brad's weblog.
< 11:26:52 AM # more elsewhere > Renaissance - Tukan - Light a Rainbow (Almadrava Remix)

As I suspected WS-License and WS-Security allow for the passing of credentials, but doesn't define an authentication scheme, rather they assume you'll be using some existing authentication scheme, like kerberos or x509 certificates.
< 11:21:12 AM # more elsewhere > Renaissance - Mr Natural - playing to Win (Vocal Version)

I found The Rules for Open-Source Programming to be both insightful and a joy to read. I especially like Ralph's more rules, and Sunir's corrolaries has given me much to think about. [Sam Ruby's Radio Weblog]
< 10:34:24 AM # more elsewhere > Renaissance - Akasha - Crazy Baby (Groove Armada Mix)

Grrrhhhh, I see the folks at msdn have had done their monthly random shuffling of pages, lots of 404s. Come on guys, its a joke how often you mess it up, get a grip !.
< 10:25:00 AM # more elsewhere > Renaissance - Groove Armada - My Friend (Dorfmeister Vs Madrid De Los Austrias Dub)

I'm looking at SOAP based authentication today, how to do authentication with no reliance on the transport used. So far i've looked at SOAP Extensions: Basic and Digest Authentication from Bob Cunnings and Rich Salz. Pretty easy to implement [I knocked up a pocketsoap / c# client for this in a couple of hours], and I like the fact that its safe from replay attacks.

I'll probably take another look at the MS GXA specs later, but i suspect for authentication they're going to be using Kerberos tickets packaged in WS-License headers, which will be fine, when Passport 3.0 ships with Kerberos support.

Know of any I've missed, then let me know.

< 10:12:04 AM # more elsewhere > 9 Lazy 9 - All Aboard (squidradio downtempo 128k: return of the best in jazzy beats and abstract grooves [SomaFM])

Sam, thanks for the kind words
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