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SOA Summer School From WSO2

Posted on June 15, 2009 by dimuthu

Are you curious What SOA is? Or How SOA revolutionize Enterprise technologies in recent times? Here is a great opportunity to you. WSO2 is hosting a SOA Summer School for Free, starting from 18th June. It will enlighten you on … Continue reading →

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Security Considerations in Firefox When Accessing Different Domains

Posted on December 22, 2008 by dimuthu

If you are a web developer you may have experienced that there are many situations that you need to access remote domains for data sources. For an example if you are building a weather mashup, you may like to connect … Continue reading →

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Sending Encrypted Binary Messages With PHP Web Services

Posted on December 14, 2008 by dimuthu

Web services has made the communication between heterogeneous environments (say PHP with .NET  or Java) a reality. It has defines standards for communicate not only with texts but also with binaries. And more importantly you can keep these communication confidential … Continue reading →

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Signing SOAP Headers In PHP Web Services

Posted on November 18, 2008 by dimuthu

Non-Repudiation and Integrity are two main security issues addressed by signing a message. If you are writing a web service or a service consumer in PHP you can use the WSF/PHP toolkit to sign messages. Here is how you can … Continue reading →

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Detect Replay Attacks In to Your PHP Web Service

Posted on November 17, 2008 by dimuthu

Replay attack is a common kind of attack, the hackers are using to break the security of a web service. If you can intercept one soap message while it is transferring through the wire, you can replay that message to … Continue reading →

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WSF/PHP Test Cases Explained

Posted on November 11, 2008 by dimuthu

WSO2 WSF/PHP comes with a comprehensive set of test cases. It covers the most of the basic/concrete scenarios supported by WSF/PHP. You can find these test cases inside the “src/tests” directory of WSF/PHP source package. Or you can find the … Continue reading →

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WSF/PHP Samples Explained

Posted on November 7, 2008 by dimuthu

Here is a simple categorization of the WSF/PHP samples. You can access all the wsf/php samples from http://labs.wso2.org/wsf/php/solutions/samples/index.html. Sample Category Example Client Source Code Example Service Source Code Online Demo Beginners echo_client.php echo_service.php Demo REST echo_client_rest.php echo_service_with_rest.php Demo WSDL Mode … Continue reading →

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Encrypt and Sign your SOAP messages in PHP

Posted on August 14, 2008 by dimuthu

When you are developing a Web Service, you have to think about the security aspects of your service seriously. When it comes to security in web services you have two basic choices. Transport level security – Just SOAP over HTTPS … Continue reading →

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