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Hi all,
I am currently designing a website for another Organisation. It will be a basic directory-type website of a load of items in a Database. The organisation maintains its own database of items that will be published to the website. There will be no network link between this DB and the webserver, so I�m planning to take a copy of this data into my own MySQL database, to be used as the datasource for the website. Getting the initial records (and related jpgs etc) will be easy, but I have to decide how this data should be updated. Off the top of my head, I can see two main options: 1. Web Service: I could write a SOAP Web Service using Cold Fusion
(have never done this before) to allow the client update the data directly from
their own end.
2. XML via form or URL variable:
The client send the relevant data to me in XML
format via a form or URL variable. The page this is sent to could process the
information, and output another XML file with a message �done� or and error
message.
---For security here, I suppose I could request a username and password field with each update. I could also restrict this to certain IPs (I know this can be faked tho). For the images here, they could be submitted as form variables too. I�m sure each of these have their pros and cons. Has anyone any better ideas, or comments on either of the above? Thanks Gav You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/ |
