To start, read this: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Developing/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-78b7.html
That gives you the basics of CF's inbuilt webservice support. Next, if you want to secure the services with a username/password, you can either make the username and password arguments of each method call or you can add a security layer like WS-Security to the web service. Either way, use SSL to keep things as secure as possible. If you do want to add WS-Security, WSS4CF (http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/) can help; it provides a way to check a digest password sent by your clients. Eventually I'll add support for taking in a whole WS-Security header and validating it by checking the TTL, storing the nonce during the TTL etc. -- WSS4CF - WS-Security framework for CF http://wss4cf.riaforge.org/ On 21 June 2010 22:33, Glyn Jackson <glyn.jack...@newebia.co.uk> wrote: > > Looking for some advice on which method is best for the following > scenario... > > My clients 99% .NET guys. Myself about 50% now. I have been asked to maybe > create a new web service in ColdFusion that allows other members of our team > and our clients (none CF'ers) to integrate using .NET or any another > language they feel fit. they don't have access to our servers so everything > will be over HTTP(S) protocol. The service needs to allow them to do basic > CRUD ON our own CF CMS and access our exchange calender currently done via > CF also. again they are not on the same server or even in the same part of > the world sometimes. as we have a lot invested in CF the webservice needs to > be in CF > > So I want to know the best way forward in terms of a webservice, basic html > posts? > how would you open this up? > what about security? how do I restrict others from acccess this as it needs > to be open over https? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:334682 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
