On 19 Feb 2001 16:59:31 -0500, Chris Anderson wrote: > On 19 Feb 2001, William Wise wrote: > > > > I'm not very up to date with XML tools, but if someone was looking to > > > integrate with FN via XML, it wouldn't really be all that hard with > > > version .3X. A quick hack would be to create a couple of XML Presentation > > > classes (see presentation/FreenetProtocol.java and > > > presentation/FNPRawMessage.java) and bind these to a localhost Listener > > > port in Core. You'd probably also have to create an > > > XMLInputStream/XMLOutputStream adapters for the raw file data exchanged > > > over the sockets. > > > > This would work but would SOAP give us more protection from filtering? > > > > I'm not sure what the issue with filtering is. I thought it was a client > side "don't execute javascript" thing.
I'm thinking about filtering on the firewall. It's possible to open port 80 on a firewall but filter non-http traffic. The big benefit to HTTP/XML/SOAP in the webservices architecture is that it allows cross-platform messaging through firewalls whereas the ports commonly associated with IIOP, DCOM, and RMI are generally blocked by firewalls. More intelligent filtering could disallow simple fnp over http but I'm wonder if using SOAP would make such filtering harder to implement since alot of "legitimate" traffic will be flowing across and it would be painful to have to block all SOAP traffic. I'm not sure if this notion stands up under scrutiny or how easy it would be to block a particular kind of SOAP traffic so I was hoping for some input from you folks who know more than I about these issues. Will _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
