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Isn't this sort of an issue for web services that will tunnel on port 80 using SOAP?
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/03/020403hniss.xml
 
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It certainly is an issue. One of the supposed advantages of SOAP over HTTP is that it will get past the firewall - of course, security people don't think this is a good idea.
I don't see why the big flap, after all, a SOAP message is not an independent executable like a virus - if the SOAP service does not provide a method that is a security flaw then nothing can happen except an error message.
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I've been hearing stuff like DOS, buffer overflow, 2-way trust violations rather than virii. I think some of these arguments come from the perspective of just having *so* much going through 80 rather than aimed specifically at SOAP itself. You have to weigh the pros and cons I guess. There is and never will be a perfect security.
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