Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Calling a WCF secure service

I know Atlas has some extensions to call WCF services but I am wondering is there any way to call a service using WS-Security instead of transport security (Https) ?.

Thanks

Pablo.

Hi Pablo,

Atlas is targeted on the "reach" end of the spectrum, which means it's pitched at technologies that are already widely deployed today. This necessarily means it can't take advantage of some of the richer protocol work like WS-Security because it's new and not everyone understands how to speak that stuff yet. I think of that as the "reach/rich tradeoff". The unfortunate reality is that you can't optimize for both at the same time.

However, history has shown that technologies that were once squarely in the 'rich' end of the spectrum have a tendency to become ubiquitous over time (a great example of this is DHTML, which has been around for years but has only recently become interesting).

Interesting times ahead :)
-steve
Thanks a lot Steve!!!. I just want to be sure about that.

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