On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 06:53:21PM +0000, Sam Vilain wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:38, Rocco Caputo wrote;
> 
>   > Currently POE's SOAP transport is limited to http.  Mostly because
>   > it uses POE::Component::Server::HTTP underneath, and that module
>   > doesn't support SSL yet.
> 
> Apparently a lot of SOAP-based commerce is using ebXML instead of SSL;
> see:
> 
>    http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2003/03/18/ebxml.html?page=1
> 
>   > Which is not entirely its fault.  I've been waffling over the
>   > right way to incorporate SSL into POE itself.  My current favorite
>   > is a Wheel::ReadWrite method to enable SSL.  Drawbacks include Yet
>   > Another Dependency for POE's installer.
> 
> Nah, just make it only compile that component if Net::SSLeay is
> installed...

Oog!  I can see the bug reports now:  "I installed POE and Net::SSLeay,
but I can't get https working!"  They would literally be installing POE
then Net::SSLeay for some reason, probably by hand.

That's a good point about ebXML.  Thanks for the URL.  I've got some
reading ahead of me.

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Rocco Caputo - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://poe.perl.org/

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