On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:45, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > is what you are looking for. However, authentication issues > are unresolved (we only use the interface locally) and that is > what Dave was pointing out as reinventing CORBA eventually and > Horst mentioned as being solvable by transporting Jabber > content.
It is also solvable the "easy way" by 1.) disallowing plain http, requiring https 2.) via https, passing plain text authentication to retrieve a authentication token (since this is a stateless protocol) 3.) from now on, ping-pong the authentication token hash in the usual way I prefer xml-rpc via jabber because it takes a lot more into account than just authentication and security. For example: - on demand store-and foreward when a connection breaks down temporarily or episodically - presence/absence discovery - text and even videoconferencing via the same protocol and server - and much more Horst
