From: Roland Schmitt <Roland.Schmitt@...>
Date: 2006-10-19T16:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: ActionWebService deprecated?

Hi,

Christopher Brown schrieb:
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> Hey all,
> I thought I remembered seeing a comment about ActionWebService being 
> deprecated in favor of something else in the latest Rails Edge.
> Is that true or did I dream it?  What is the ongoing story for web 
> services in Ruby?  Can anyone comment about such things as SOAP request 
> authentication and support for WS-Security?
> Last I looked, there were no pure Ruby XML canonicalization libraries, 
> which kinda foils that plan.
> 
> Peace,
> Chris
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look at www.rubyforge.org/projects/wss4r for a pure-ruby WS-Security 
implementation. It contains a rudiment xml canonicalizer. The problems 
with the canonicalizer are more or less problems with the underlying xml 
parser, REXML in this case.

I think first we need other xml parsers (perhaps libXML?) before we can 
think of WS-Security.


Regards,
Roland