Hi Wim, We did some (unfortunately undocumented) work on supporting various authentication methods for WSDL services - HTTP authentication as well as WS-Security profiles. Most of the work is still in the prototype stage and has not made it to the Taverna 2.1 beta. Also most of the WSDL services that people use in the workflows are not secure and are publicly available. The biggest problem for us, from Taverna's standpoint, is discovering what 'kind' of security a service expects as services do not seem to be using WS-Policy or some other means for telling the client what kind of credentials to send to the service etc. so the user has to configure it manually on the Taverna' side. Some work has been done on the UI for describing 'security properties' of WSDL services, however this is pretty hard for ordinary users and error prone. On the other hand, there is a growing demand for security support and this is something we'll definitely have a look very soon.
Is HTTP Auth over https the only type of security your services are expecting or you have a variety of security 'profiles'? It is always good for us to have real life use cases as it is easier to add support in Taverna for something that is really been used and is needed in real life. Cheers, Alex Wim De Smet wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble finding more info on the Taverna 2 security > support. Specifically I was wondering about what authentication methods > supports. Is it just WS-Security profiles or is there support for HTTP > authentication methods too? If so, which ones? > > regards, > Wim > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/taverna-mailing-lists/
