Re: Review - Web Services Security: SOAP Message Security (1 of 3)
Marc Hadley <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.text.xml.distributed |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 11:27 US/Eastern, Marc Hadley wrote: > > *** 406 "a message MAY have multiple <wsse:Security> header blocks if > they are targeted for separate recipients." why can't a message > contain multiple wsse:Security header blocks targetted at the same > recipient, this seems like an uneccessary/arbitrary restriction. > Thinking about this some more, it occurs to me that this restriction forces intermediaries that want to insert security information to change header blocks that aren't targeted at them (assuming there's already Security header block targeted at the same recipient). This doesn't gel too well with the processing model of forwarding intermediaries. Marc. -- Marc Hadley <[email protected]> Web Technologies and Standards, Sun Microsystems.