I, for one, will always block SOAP because it was spawned by Mickeysoft and I have
never seen anything "secure" from that bunch.
Rusty
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> SOAP is an attempt to formulate a better structure for client-server exchanges
> than the present grapbag of CGI scripting.
> If SOAP is such a problem, why not also block anything with a CGI request in it
> or POST altogether?
> What is impoortant is to have a syntax for client-server exchanges that can be
> parsed unequivocally so that intermediate filters such as firewalls or web
> proxies do not interpretet the meaning differently from each other, the server
> or the client.
> If the SOAPaction verb in HTTP allows us to be clearer, it can only help
> firewalls.
> Unfortunately, SOAP is coming along a little late in the game. Most systems
> will always need to support CGI and other scripting so SOAP adds to the
> complexity rather than replaces it by a better paradigm.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/07/2001 09:47:16 AM
>
>
>
> To: Mark Nottingham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED](bcc: Bill
> Royds/HullOttawa/PCH/CA)
>
>
>
> Subject: Re: SOAP/XML Protocol and filtering, etc.
>
>
> Mark,
>
> Maybe I am missing something here but I thought that the whole point
> of developing SOAP was so that application developers could do stuff
> without having to bother the pesky firewall administrator. I block SOAP
> and I probably will continue to do so regardless of the identification
> placed in the SOAP header. HTTP is bad enough without making the transport
> protocol for everything else under the sun. The SOAPAction header sounds
> nice but I think that most firewall administers will just block SOAP until
> they are ordered not to.
>
> Regards,
> Jeffery Gieser
>
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