[ogsa-hpcp-wg] MS HPCBasicProfile Web Service

[Christopher Smith]

Right ... transport is pre-defined.

-- Chris


On 16/10/06 10:41, "Peter G. Lane" <lane at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> Christopher Smith wrote:
>> On 16/10/06 08:38, "Peter G. Lane" <lane at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>> 
>>>> By the way ... it's not anonymous https ... we are authenticating the
>>>> server
>>>> with SSL.
>>> Right, "https" means http over SSL. "Anonymous" means anonymous SSL
>>> authentication. What am I missing?
>>> 
>> Sorry ... anonymous to me mean http over SSL so there is an encrypted
>> connection but with no authentication using SSL. We're requiring connecting
>> to a server that has a proper certificate, so the server is authenticated
>> via SSL. The client is authenticated using the WS-Security Username Token.
> 
> I think we're on the same page. I'm probably just not using terminology
> properly. Also, the
> WS-Security Username Token stuff is in the SOAP message, so I wasn't
> considering it since it isn't
> part of the transport protocol.
> 
> At any rate, the main point is that we don't need to discover the transport
> binding since we agreed
> on this already. Yes?
> 
> Peter
> 
>> 
>> -- Chris
>>  
>> 
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