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Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 3 – Digital Signature

Allard — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:10:55 +0000

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There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding about Web Service security. Using password authentication doesn’t prevent unauthorized users to access your data, while SSL / HTTPS doesn’t give you any information about who is trying to access your services. And did you ever [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 2

Allard — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:23:04 +0000

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Feeling secure with Web Services – Part 1 – The UsernameToken

Allard — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:25:59 +0000

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Recently, I’ve been helping a customer with some Web Service issues. One of the problems was their limited knowledge of security in that area. He asked me to explain, in Jip and Janneke language [1] how SSL works and what it actually secures.

There [...]

Feeling secure with Web Services – Introduction

Allard — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:45:27 +0000

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Why are web services so different from an HTML user interface?

Allard — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:41:35 +0000

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We all know how a typical web application is usually built up. The image at the side rougly displays the different layers that are to be found in an application. Typically, the user interface layer receives HTTP requests, calls one or more methods in [...]