Hey all,
I thought I remembered seeing a comment about ActionWebService being
deprecated in favor of something else in the latest Rails Edge.
Is that true or did I dream it? What is the ongoing story for web
services in Ruby? Can anyone comment about such things as SOAP
request authentication and support for WS-Security?
Last I looked, there were no pure Ruby XML canonicalization
libraries, which kinda foils that plan.
Peace,
Chris
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Hey all,
I thought I remembered seeing a comment about ActionWebService being
deprecated in favor of something else in the latest Rails Edge.
Is that true or did I dream it? What is the ongoing story for web
services in Ruby? Can anyone comment about such things as SOAP
request authentication and support for WS-Security?
Last I looked, there were no pure Ruby XML canonicalization
libraries, which kinda foils that plan.
Have a look at the wss4r project at rubyforge.org.
I haven’t used it myself, so I can’t comment.
look at www.rubyforge.org/projects/wss4r for a pure-ruby WS-Security
implementation. It contains a rudiment xml canonicalizer. The problems
with the canonicalizer are more or less problems with the underlying xml
parser, REXML in this case.
I think first we need other xml parsers (perhaps libXML?) before we can
think of WS-Security.
I thought I remembered seeing a comment about ActionWebService being
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i think the shortest road to XML/WS-security in ruby would be a binding
to something like xmlsec (XML Security Library).
But using native libraries for everything is perhaps not the right way.
Thanks and I completely agree.
Struggling with not being able to use REXML in canonicalization is
one of the things that brought me to ask. I really didn’t want to
fall back on native code libraries for this, but I’m pragmatic and
willing to accept bindings to libXML, etc. if that’s the shortest
road to a working solution.
Cheers,
Chris
On 19 Oct 2006, at 9:26 AM, Roland S. wrote:
request authentication and support for WS-Security?