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Re: SOAP-RPC and REST and security

• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>
• Subject: Re: SOAP-RPC and REST and security
• From: Paul Prescod <paul@p...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 21:53:08 -0800
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Gavin Thomas Nicol wrote:
> 
>...
> 
> Given that most initial RESTful applications will use HTTP, I can't
> see how they'd be intrinsically any safer than SOAP over HTTP.
> 
> FWIW. One of the basics of security is the notion of "least privilege"
> which web services (indeed the web in general) almost explicitly goes
> against because of the global namespaces.

How is "being in the same namespace" a priviledge?

 Paul Prescod

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