Topic: Making an XML "Query"

Hopefully quick one for you guys.

I'm rather new to XML, and I need to use some for some authentication stuff for work. Basically we are using XML to set up sessions.

My question is: How do I send an XML formatted query to the auth server? Simply a form post with the right varnames? or is there some sort of XML "push" thing that needs to happen?

ideas?

RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham

hi
it's not too clear what you're trying to achieve here since you don't mention the platform and architecture that you're developing on.

I suspect that when you're talking about auth servers, we're looking as server side scripting, which would be the easiest way to reolve the users authentication issues via either ldap or database lookup

either that or you're working on a windows xp based intranet and need to call a web service via soap from the client

so if it's not too much trouble - a little more information please

Thanks for the response.

I realised shortly after I posted that, that I need to talk to the folks in charge of the auth server, and find out how THEY want the request.

I was just wondering if there is a standard way of sending xml formatted data to a server, as in simply pass form variables with the proper names and let them parse it out on their end, or what.

I'm using PHP by the way, if that matters. Not sure what the auth server is.



RypTide

"Music is the vernacular of the human soul" ~ Geoffrey Latham

for my money, I usually just pass the contents of a form back to the server side script as usual, extract the values and put them into a piece of xml that way

I guess you could read the values from the form fields on the client side when the form is submitted, insert them into a string of xml and pass that through to your script in a hidden field; but why make life that difficult

as for just passing xml around between servers (or anything else for that matter), as long as its a well formed xml document and the server knows what do do with the xml when it gets it, then passing the information should largely be the same as passing a string into a function


don't know if that answers things for you, but I hope it helps
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