Re: Authenticating from a web service call

Interesting idea. However, I think this is ssl between the client and
database. Given the client would be the server hosting the web service I
don't think this would work for the web service client.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie> wrote:

> On 16/03/2012 18:39, Bryan Montgomery wrote:
> > Hello,
> > We are looking at implementing a web service that basically makes calls
> > to the database.
> >
> > I have been thinking about ways to secure the web service based on the
> > database.
> >
> > I initially thought about just connecting to the database as the user
> > with parameters passed through the web service - however I don't know
> > how to do that other than clear text passwords.
>
> Postgres supports connections over SSL - will this do the job?
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/ssl-tcp.html
>
> Ray.
>
>
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>