Re: Creating programs using SSL

Don't do it. The world doesn't need another RPC system. It's perfectly reasonable to reject SOAP but that doesn't mean you can't find something out there which will meet your needs. Personally I've found that the upsides to just using Apache/mod_perl far outweigh the downsides inherent in using a state-less protocol.

-sam

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Re^2: Creating programs using SSL by japhy (Canon) on May 15, 2006 at 21:06 UTC
An HTTP server running over SSL is probably fine, I just didn't think I had to go that route. The specifics of the matter are this: my company has a box that takes care of multi-step routines for database tasks, and we want a secure means to talk to it and get a response back (usually a table row's id). These tasks are things like "add object type X number Y to container number Z", which means updating a handful of tables: a non-atomic process that looks atomic from the outside (that is, from the perspective of the person calling `addObjectToContainer("person" => 100, 4923)`. So I don't care if the mechanism is `https://XXX/addObjectToContainer?otype=person&oid=100&cid=4923`, really, I just want something simple. I'm not sending objects back and forth. Just simple data TO the server, and an ID number BACK. Jeff `japhy` Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and `perl` hacker How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Creating programs using SSL
by japhy (Canon) on May 15, 2006 at 21:06 UTC

addObjectToContainer("person" => 100, 4923)

So I don't care if the mechanism is https://XXX/addObjectToContainer?otype=person&oid=100&cid=4923, really, I just want something simple. I'm not sending objects back and forth. Just simple data TO the server, and an ID number BACK.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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