RE: SOAPAction thoughts from elsewhere

Henrik Nielsen writes:

>> It is disappointing that people read into 
>> SOAPAction any security mechanism

I thought it was very clearly intended as, in part, a security hint, and 
in that sense a part of a security mechanism.  My understanding was that 
the intended operation would be that security filters would reject traffic 
with untrusted SOAPAction headers, but that final checking would be done 
by the actual downstream SOAP processor which has access to the more 
reliable (as opposed to hint) information within the envelope.  Are we 
saying the same thing?

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Received on Monday, 7 May 2001 17:02:21 UTC