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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: SOAP, plague, love
 Jonathan, I agree with your assessment. It points out that SOAP by itself is inadequate for E-Commerce applications and must be augmented by another technology (XMTP is a great example and it's a fine peice of work). You really should consider sending XMTP to W3C as a working draft. FYI - I referenced XMTP in the ebXML packaging spec as a possible solution to create a pure XML packaging solution. Dick Brooks http://www.8760.com/ -----Original Message----- From: owner-xml-dev@x... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@x...]On Behalf Of Jonathan Borden Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2000 12:32 PM To: xml-dev@x... Subject: RE: SOAP, plague, love Dick Brooks wrote: > > David, > > If I sent a PGP encrypted/signed document as a call parameter > using SOAP how > would the receiver know the information was signed/encrypted. Is > there a way > to indicate the data is signed/encrypted using SOAP constructs? If not, > does this mean I have to package SOAP in another envelope, MIME perhaps? > 'SOAP' would not need to be packaged in another envelope, but the PGP signed/encrypted paramater would need to be represented in a way that would enable it to be inserted into a valid XML document as a sub-tree. This is the exact situation that XMTP (http://jabr.ne.mediaone.net/documents/xmtp.htm) handles. XMTP is a mechanism to represent SMTP/MIME messages in valid XML, as such the XMTP converted PGP document can be inserted into the XML envelope as the 'parameter'. What this does in effect is create an XMTP document envelope which represents whatever you would otherwise represent in MIME. E.g. (simplified for readability) <MIME> <Content-type>multipart/encrypted</Content-type> <Parts> <MIME> <Content-ID>document</Content-ID> <Content-transfer-encoding>base64</Content-transfer-encoding> <Body>...</Body> </MIME> <MIME> <Content-ID>signature</Content-ID> <Body>...</Body> </MIME> </Parts> </MIME> So, the answer is yes :-) Jonathan Borden *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ *************************************************************************** 
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