- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 14:20:33 -0400
- To: Christopher B Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: www-ws@w3.org
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:03:07PM -0400, Christopher B Ferris wrote: > > Mike has said that SOAP firewalls will be going to market soon. What > > SOAP applications will they understand? Will those firewalls be > > Need they necessarily understand the application? Not all intermediaries, no, but for firewalls, yes I believe they do, at least in the general case of protecting the innards of the Intranet from untrusted parties. VPNs are a separate story; I agree that they don't need to. But I don't think we need to agree about that in order to agree that an intermediary that was hardcoded to an application, would be better able to understand an interaction between other components that were also hardcoded to that application. Right? And FWIW, I think we can leave it at that. If you disagree, I surrender! 8-) MB -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Web architecture consulting, technical reports, evaluation & analysis Actively seeking contract work or employment
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