Check out these presentations by Simone Free. He's got some really good pointers in them.
http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/cfobjective.html http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/cfunited-09---washington-dc.html http://www.simonfree.com/presentations/nashville-cfug.html Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com Ian Skinner wrote: > I do enjoy when I get to branch out and do things I've never done before. > > We are getting deep into the planning stage of a new project that will > be a web service to be consumed by an outside agency to integrate their > data systems with ours. > > We will want there to be security and authorization so that our system > has a reasonable assurance that the submitted data only comes from their > system. I'm pretty sure there are several ways to do this, but I have > never done anything like it before. So I'm hoping some of you can point > me to any good information on what we need to think about? How we might > do this. What the process and code might look like to implement. > Information along those lines. > > A couple of ideas that have already been raised. We creating a > public|private key that they use to connect to our server as well as > standard user name|password authentication. > > Thanks > Ian > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336822 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm