RE: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services

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Elliotte Rusty Harold <>
To
"Cavnar-Johnson, John" <>, 'Rich Salz' <>
Date
2003-01-31T17:20:52Z
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<p04330107ba6060c00534@[192.168.254.4]>
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RE: [xml-dev] Elliotte Rusty Harold on Web Services
At 10:36 AM -0600 1/31/03, Cavnar-Johnson, John wrote:
>Probably something along these lines:
>http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0006.html
>
>The basic idea is that SOAP is an attempt to sneak past the corporate
>firewall and get some real work done, which, of course, is a security
>problem.

Exactly. Note that this would go away completely if web services 
didn't piggyback on port 80, and try to hide what they really are.
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