SOAP Digital Signatures for Web Services

[mizrahim]

Hi Everyone -

I'm fairly new to CF, but I'm trying to develop an application that invokes a
web service.

I'd like to be able to digitally sign the SOAP message that is sent to the web
service using an X509 Certificate to ensure the message's integrity. I know
that the SOAP architecture allows for this, and that other languages, including
..NET, provide a way to do it. However, after a fairly exhaustive search, I
can't find any documentation explaining how to do this with CFINVOKE.

If there's a way to do it in CF, I'd really appreciate someone explaining it
to me, or at least pointing me in the right direction.

Thanks!

--Matt

[Tom Jordahl]

There is no built-in support for this in ColdFusion MX.

You can use the SOAP header functions built in for CFMX 7 (there is a tech
note with a download to get equivalent functions in CFMX 6.1) to add a
digital signature.

Are you trying to do WS-Security?

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development

[mizrahim]

Thanks Tom.

I am, in fact, trying to do WS-Security, although without much success.

The SOAP header functions you mentioned sound like they could work. Can you
point me towards the documentation for those? That would be extremely helpful.

Thanks again!
--Matt

[Brian Hogue]

Please post any answers. I am sure that I am NOT the only other individual
who is looking for this answer. Thanks in advance.

-brian


"mizrahim" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d2cdpc$1jq$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Thanks Tom.
>
> I am, in fact, trying to do WS-Security, although without much success.
>
> The SOAP header functions you mentioned sound like they could work. Can

you

> point me towards the documentation for those? That would be extremely

helpful.

>
> Thanks again!
> --Matt
>

[Tom Jordahl]

Going to the ColdFusion support site and doing a search for "SOAP header" I
found:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_18939[/url]

Check [url]http://livedocs.macromedia.com/[/url] and look in the CFML Reference for the
SOAP functions in CFMX 7.

--
Tom Jordahl
Macromedia Server Development