Re: [xml-dev] SOAP-RPC and REST and security

[Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>]

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