[Cialug] Re: [ciapug] XML

[Tony Bibbs]

Anything wrong with using SOAP?  If so, what about XMLRPC?

Securing the service can be a challenge and it needs to happen at 
multiple levels.  Networking is a good place to start...if you can only 
allow access to the service from specific hosts.  Then there is the 
transport layer...using SSL is a no brainer and finally, you can embed 
some sort of userid/password type of thing to go over with the request.

I'd personally recommend SOAP (PHP5's SOAP implementation is servicable) 
and if that won't fly then you can use XMLRPC.  PHP5 supports XMLPRC 
(assuming the appropriate --with-xmlrpc option was given) and should 
that fail then use PEAR's XMLRPC implementation: 
http://pear.php.net/package/XML_RPC#results

--Tony

David Champion wrote:

> [crosspostin']
>
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote [on the PHP list] :
>
>> Anyone using XML on one of their sites to exchange information with
>> other systems?
>>
>> Anyone sending an "XML query" (wrong terminology, I know) to another
>> site, retrieving the data and inserting into their system?
>>
>> How do you handle the authenitication? What software you use on the
>> Linux system?
>>
>>
>> :) Dave
>
>
> I recall Dave Weis mentioned that he'd written a PHP/XML service 
> recently.
>
> -dc
>
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