Re: [DotGNU]Web Services - More Secure or Less?

[Adam Theo]

Rhys Weatherley wrote:

> Anyway, we can probably deal with it by providing an
> alternative transport for SOAP messages.  Instead of
> sending them via HTTP on port 80, we could supply an
> option to send them via some other well-known port.
> SOAP is actually transport-independent to some degree.
> This would give firewall administrators their control back.
> However, I'm not too sure how effective this would
> be unless lots of other vendors adopted the same port.
Yes, Jabber is now able to route SOAP around it's platform on port 5222. 
And I suppose firewalls could be built that only allowed SOAP requests 
from certain Jabber ID's, not just "the world in general".