Re: Some webservice connections

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From: Sami Vaaraniemi (samivanospam_at_pleasejippii.fi)
Date: 10/18/04 

Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:46:59 +0300

"Nikolay Petrov" <johntup2@mail.bg> wrote in message
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> 1. Can I use SSL for my web services?

Yes. Install an SSL certificate on the web server, and have the consumers
use https in the url of the service.

> 2. How can implement some kind of security to my web services? My idea is
to
> implement some kind of licensing or user/password authentication for an
web
> service.

There are plenty of options, ranging from passing username/password
combination in web method parameters or soap headers, IIS authentication
features, to WS-Security in WSE. You will need to do a bit of research to
find out which is best suited for your requirements.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/building/security/default.aspx can get
you started.

> 3. Do I have to make my web service multi threaded or IIS takes care for
> simultaneous requests?
> (I mean not multi threaded for accepting connections, that is done by
> IIS, but multi threaded to the things it does, like file operations,
> database connections and so on.)

If your web methods access a shared resource, then you will need to write
code to do it in thread-safe manner.

Regards,
Sami