[OGSA-BES-WG] A RESTFul HTTP mapping of the BES WSDL

[Roger Menday]

Aleksandr Konstantinov wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 18:42, Donal K. Fellows wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Smith wrote:
>>     
>>> Could you not employ X.509 client/server authentication at the TLS layer? I
>>> believe you can access the certificate information when processing the HTTP
>>> operations. 
>>>
>>> Just wondering....
>>>       
>> That sounds like an entirely practical way of doing it to me, especially
>> as there is rather a lot of in-service experience out there with
>> handling authentication and authorization for access to HTTP operations.
>> There might be a few tricky bits of course (notably how to handle
>> telling the client how to authenticate to the server, though in the
>> fallback case of username/password all that stuff exists already) but it
>> still seems quite possible.
>>     
>
> How about delegation? Will it require additional mapping? Or should it be handled 
> in a separate layer?
>   
I think from a standpoint of the Grid embedded into the Web, it is 
interesting to look at what the Web community proposes in this area - 
for example, OpenID for 1st party, and OAuth for 3rd party (including 
delegation).

(?)

Roger
> A.K.
>
>
>   
>> I like the idea that the interfaces we define are fundamentally
>> independent of how they are interacted with. That has the architectural
>> equivalent of Good Code Smell. :-)
>>
>> Donal.
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