Web Services on Drugs

Welcome to the blogging world, Kuassi. I'll have to check 360 Degree DB Programming and learn new tips and tricks from you. Goog luck with this new endhavour :-) -ecco

Sometime, you have to wonder why something works the way it does. The most recent time I had to scratch my head, was when trying to showcase the integration of Web services with the Office 2003 Research pane. It let me wonder what SOAP toolkit is used to build the client side piece. The answer came from the wire; some homegrown client, identified as 'Microsoft Office/11.0 (Windows NT 5.2; Microsoft Office 11.0.6568; Pro)' in the user-agent field. If you scope the namespace as Microsoft expects them to be, based on the WSDL they advertise , or include a whitespace between the parameter element and the registration response, it won't work. And the error is displayed as "No services were added because the service provider did not provide any valid information." - not exactly true... When you put this is context of other papers, like 'Why XML Security is Broken' , it make it all clear - The XML processing is most likely limited to some kind of...