how to secure a connection between server and client

1. you can use htaccess authentification ( will be suported later )
2. you can user allow/deny by htaccess

example of .htaccess from my server ( folder /soap/ )

now anyone can access to a soap server who is not in the IP list

later i will try to put it on soap server himself

I can't find the extension for RHEL3. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...soap&srodzaj=3

do they make one for RHEL?

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okay little howto:

if you cannot find a extension for you destibution
but you have php5 installed !!!

download rpm for any linux-destibution ( example like suse )

mkdir /tmp/php-soap
cd /tmp/php-soap
wget ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/9.3/suse/i586/php5-soap-5.0.3-14.i586.rpm

after it you must unpack/extrackt the rpm file:

rpm2cpio php5-soap-5.0.3-14.i586.rpm | cpio -imdv

after it you have folders like "usr" and "etc" in your temp folder
in etc folder should be a ini file to load a soap extension
if not, you can create one and move it to your php5 "conf.d" folder or add this code to your php.ini
in folder "usr"(lib/php5)? should be a "soap" or "soap.so" extension
move the file to your php5 extension folder

restart apache and have fun with soap :D

for RHEL you should better take Centos RPMs ;)

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat...soap&srodzaj=3

seems like a nice hack but it is too technical. if there are some sample code for possible implementation it will be better.

download a package and look at the examples folder

okay modify a server to create own functions is not so easy, that is true

but connects to a server to get some informations is realy easy

only with 2 lines you can make a login of a user, or get last X threads from a forum

1.line (connect)

$connect= new SoapClient(SERVERURL);

2.line ( get data )

$threads=$connect->getLastThreads(X);

done, you have now an array "threads" which have all needed informations to display last X threads

i dont think that this solution is too technical ;)

i got 2 errors:

testurl: http://www.meinedomain.de/joomla/for...sion/login.php

> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /var/www/virtual/meinedomain.de/htdocs/joomla/forum/soap/examples/session/login.php on line 6

testurl: http://www.meinedomain.de/joomla/for...mples/test.php
> Parse error: parse error, unexpected '{' in /var/www/virtual/meinedomain.de/htdocs/joomla/forum/soap/examples/test.php on line 9

what does it mean?

you must have php5 installed, because php4 dont know try..catch construct ( and dont have soap extension )

This is what I definitely need for joomla and vbulletin. But I am confused, where in the server.php file do I change the url, username, password, and access key??? Please explain in detail, your instructions are very vague. Thanks. :)

look at the examples

access key is a litte hack to make communication beween server and client a little bit secure
you can setup it in vbulletin admincp

the URL is the absolute URL to your soap server www.mydomain.com/forum/soap/server.php

username/password are username and password from the user of your forum