Tuesday, April 18, 2006

PHP XML Signatures

A couple of posts recently (here, and here) have talked about how hard it is to sign XML content, and even questioned the usefulness of doing so. I don't totally disagree that it's hard, but I wanted to show how it was possible to use the xmlsec C library to provide the ability to sign XML content from a scripted environment, and that from an application programming perspective anyway, it didn't have to be so rough.

I wrote an article about this - comments are welcome ;)

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi John,

Thanks for the article.. It really gave me some insight in signing XML files for REST webservices.

Only could you give some more info (or even supply one :) ) on how to create a SWIG header file as stated in your article? (A SWIG interface file (just like a C header file) that describes the function signature). I've tried to create the php extension, although i can't get any further..

I'm reachable at m.siersema at eximion dot nl

Thanks in advance!

8:38 AM  

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