Thanks Andy, a really useful presentation. Certainly given me a lot to think about.
Cheers Jim >Jim... > >Simon Free gave an excellent presentation to the Nashville CFUG on "writing >public facing APIs". I'd point you that direction to get started: > >http://www.ncfug.com/go/meeting/meetingID/2FF6B098-A6C8-07F7-403E6199D0D8FC1 >D/ > > >Andy matthews > >Hi All, long time lurker, first time poster here. > >I was hoping someone could offer me some advice. A company I working for >would like to start exposing some of their internal systems to the outside >world using webservices. Obviously we want to do this in a secure and >controlled manner as possible. I was hoping to pass all requests through a >single function in a cfc. This cfc would examine the request, check >passwords, ip adddresses and validate data before calling the actual >required function from another cfc and passing data back to the client. I >was thinking of doing this by passing an xml packet as the only argument to >the main cfc and then parsing this file to determine the desired method, >username, password and other arguments. > >I'd like to know if this sounds like I'm heading in the right direction, or >am I talking total nonsense? Is there an already written framework for >creating webservices in a more controlled manner than just setting the odd >cfc to 'remote'? I would be eternally grateful if anyone could assist. > >Jim ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323151 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
