RE: SOAPAction thoughts from elsewhere

Regarding the use as a hint, I think this is consistent with what you
suggest. What I tried to address was that some remarks in the mails that
Mark sent around read more into it than a hint and came to the
conclusion that as it can't be trusted (because it is a hint just like
content type etc) that it was not useful.

Henrik

>>> 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?

Received on Monday, 7 May 2001 18:31:21 UTC