Re: [DotGNU]Jabber & Authentication

[Adam Theo]

Jonathan P Springer wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 05:10:07PM +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
>
> > On Monday 22 April 2002 05:20, Jonathan P Springer wrote:
> >
> > > So I started fiddling with the idea of accepting SOAP over Jabber.
> > > Essentially, I'm trying to create a Jabber "client" that will accept
> > > SOAP as the content of a Message or Query (asynchronous vs.
> > > synchronous). 
>
> I'm doing it in Java right now.  I'm trying to integrate the JabberBeans
> library and the Apache SOAP implementation.  Before anyone else says it,
> I know there may be licensing issues lurking, but I'm being forced this
> way because Apache's got the best functional implementation of XML:DB,
> my eventual target for data storage.

Glad to hear it :-) And yeah, the XML:DB project is good. I like 
XUpdate, and making it the focus of many of my projects.

As for authentication: There is currently some various auth methods. I'm 
not too familiar with the whole auth thing, but i know there is 
something called "zero-knowledge authentication". I don't know if that 
is what you are looking for, though. Also, there are efforts to allow 
PGP/GPG in Jabber using SASL (or is that SAML?). You can find out more 
by signing up for the Jabber Standards-JIG list 
[http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/standards-jig]. They are discussing 
the protocols for this sort of thing now.

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