Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> Bryce Martin wrote:
> > And if HTTPS is sufficient then why would you consider it less secure
> > than
> > SOAP?
>
> More to the point ... why is anyone comparing HTTPS & SOAP at all?  They
> are apples & oranges.
>
> HTTPS is a security protocol.
>
> SOAP is a data protocol.
>
> An application might use HTTPS (SSL to be more precise) to securely issue
> a SOAP request, but that's the extent of it.
>
> david

I think there was some misunderstanding.  I first mentioned SOAP when
trying to get a feel for what Henrik meant when he asked "How does EGL
handle security".  I was trying to understand what his scope was.  I
didn't know whether he was referring to something as basic as SSL or
something a little more involved like Kerberos.

Somewhere along the line I mentioned that I prefer SOAP for external
communications, but as I explained in a later post that's for
administrative reasons, not security.  But I think Bryce got the idea from
my original post that I was suggesting that SOAP was more secure than REST
and he objected to that characterization.

As it turns out, the discussion was mostly moot.  Henrik was talking about
URL spoofing which has less to do with communications security than with
application design.

Joe