[Cialug] Re: [ciapug] XML

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

This is exactly what I wanted to do, but I'd like to have it happen as
cron job...

On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 10:23, Claus wrote:
> Not sure what you really want to achive but I'd suggest using SSL and 
> with apache authentication then you can just focus on creating the XML 
> data stream with php.
> 
> Another option is to have the web server listen to a local port only to 
> which you have an ssh tunnel.
> 
>    Claus
> 
> On 3/22/2005 4:50 PM, Korver, Aaron wrote:
> > Note though that SSL isn't good enough when talking about SOAP if you 
> > are going to be pushing the webservice out to the world.  If you are 
> > going to be staying within a private LAN then SSL is probably 
> > sufficient.  Transport layer security is just one layer.  The 
> > ws-security specs detail data layer security. 
> > 
> > http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0
> > 
> > 
> >  > -----Original Message-----
> >  > From: Tony Bibbs [mailto:tony@tonybibbs.com]
> >  > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 11:09 AM
> >  > To: cialug@cialug.org
> >  > Cc: ciapug@cialug.org
> >  > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Re: [ciapug] XML
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Anything wrong with using SOAP?  If so, what about XMLRPC?
> >  >
> >  > Securing the service can be a challenge and it needs to happen at
> >  > multiple levels.  Networking is a good place to start...if
> >  > you can only
> >  > allow access to the service from specific hosts.  Then there is the
> >  > transport layer...using SSL is a no brainer and finally, you
> >  > can embed
> >  > some sort of userid/password type of thing to go over with
> >  > the request.
> >  >
> >  > I'd personally recommend SOAP (PHP5's SOAP implementation is
> >  > servicable)
> >  > and if that won't fly then you can use XMLRPC.  PHP5 supports XMLPRC
> >  > (assuming the appropriate --with-xmlrpc option was given) and should
> >  > that fail then use PEAR's XMLRPC implementation:
> >  > http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC#results
> >  >
> >  > --Tony
> >  >
> >  > David Champion wrote:
> >  >
> >  > > [crosspostin']
> >  > >
> >  > > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote [on the PHP list] :
> >  > >
> >  > >> Anyone using XML on one of their sites to exchange information with
> >  > >> other systems?
> >  > >>
> >  > >> Anyone sending an "XML query" (wrong terminology, I know)
> >  > to another
> >  > >> site, retrieving the data and inserting into their system?
> >  > >>
> >  > >> How do you handle the authenitication? What software you use on the
> >  > >> Linux system?
> >  > >>
> >  > >>
> >  > >> :) Dave
> >  > >
> >  > >
> >  > > I recall Dave Weis mentioned that he'd written a PHP/XML service
> >  > > recently.
> >  > >
> >  > > -dc
> >  > >
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