XML Schema derivation by extension superfluous?. Don falls for derivation by restriction one more time. [Don Box's Spoutlet]While I was just trying to round out some ideas related to the schema and web services discussion we’ve been having, I came across this post from Don.  Very pertinent to what we’re talking about, relative to extending a [...]

New essay: Expect More.  [Sam Ruby]Sam writes an excellent essay on upward and downward compatibility with web service contracts.  If I might paraphrase for context, he holds that we should be able to add or remove parameters from a web service contract, without adversely affecting existing clients (note he says a lot more than this [...]

Wow, who knew…my managed HTTP authentication samples are on the “Cool Stuff” list at 123aspx.com.  I mean, sure, I thought they were cool :-)…but I didn’t know it would be a popular thing!

Regarding my previous post about adding methods to web services without changing the version/namespace, Brad had a good comment:The thing you have to be careful with is new clients against old servers. While the consequences aren’t necessarily as severe (crashing w/ an access violation is bad :), they still need to be planned for. [The [...]

Clemens and Gordon on XML Web Services Regarding Clemens Vasters’ article on Staying sane in an XML Web Services World: Furthermore, Clemens assumes that XML Schema is the only way to communicate a contract, but my understanding is that WSDL does not have this limitation. I’d also like to suggest that Clemens’ rule #3 is [...]

Sorry for no posts over the last week, with absolutely no notice.  I’ve been out of town at a new client’s office, and for some reason (despite setting everything up), I couldn’t access Radio remotely.  Time to install on my laptop, I guess.A few tidbits, which I’ll probably write more about:1. I never realized just [...]

A 150-pound fiberglass cow has been stolen from a Chick-Fil-A billboard in Denver.  [...] The cow, one of the company’s mascots urging customers to “Eat Mor Chikin,” was apparently taken during the weekend. [...] Chick-Fil-A is also offering free chicken sandwiches for a year for information leading to the safe return of the cow. [Yahoo! [...]

Oops!  Justin Rudd brought the following bugs to my attention: 1. When using Opera, the cnonce value is a base-64 encoded value which may contain the ‘=’ character. The original parsing code did not correctly handle this situation. 2. Mozilla uses the entire URI (including the query string) for the uri field in the authorization header, [...]

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I have posted an article and sample of using HTTP Digest authentication with web services, without using the built-in IIS Digest implementation and Active Directory.  Like my previous authentication sample, this one is all managed code, and will work in shared hosting environments.I think Digest authentication has gotten a bit of a bum rap, and it’s [...]