[AWS] Still curious ;-)

Florian Weimer Weimer@CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Sat, 08 Jun 2002 23:21:31 +0200


Jeremy Cowgar <develop@cowgar.com> writes:

>> 2) Would it be better to use AWS? (OK, a bit rhetorical here I guess,
>>    but what are the advantages)
>
> If you were to use Soap, it works over HTTP, therefore through firewalls
> and even on secure http.

If you don't use HTTPS, firewall setups will eventually catch up and
SOAP will be filtered, if SOAP follows the lead of other RPC
protocols.

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