Calling a web service over HTTPS?

[Andy Breward]

Hi

Does anyone have any advice/information with regards to
calling a web service that will be hosted on a server
running HTTPS.

Are there any special considerations?

Are there any restrictions?

Is there any documentation at hand for me to review?

Am I making a fuss about nothing LOL??

Thanks in advance

Andy

[Jan Tielens]

> Are there any special considerations?
You need a server certificate (either a test certificate which you can
generate, or a "real" one bought from Verisign for example).

> Are there any restrictions?

There is some performance degradation because everything needs to be
encrypted and decrypted.

> Is there any documentation at hand for me to review?

You can check out my post about this topic:
[url]http://weblogs.asp.net/jan/archive/2003/12/04/41154.aspx[/url]

> Am I making a fuss about nothing LOL??

:-)

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"Andy Breward" <andy@thecodeclinic.net> wrote in message
news:0bba01c3d5da$f99627a0$a301280a@phx.gbl...

> Hi
>
> Does anyone have any advice/information with regards to
> calling a web service that will be hosted on a server
> running HTTPS.
>
> Are there any special considerations?
>
> Are there any restrictions?
>
> Is there any documentation at hand for me to review?
>
> Am I making a fuss about nothing LOL??
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Andy

[MSFT]

Hello,

Thank for the answer from Jan. As a supply, you can refer to following
article:

HOW TO: Secure XML Web Services with Secure Socket Layer in Windows Server
2003
[url]http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q324284[/url]

Hope this help,

Luke
Microsoft Online Support

Get Secure! [url]www.microsoft.com/security[/url]
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