Archives for November 2004

Now that I have my publishing tool working I just got the news that as a Microsoft MVP I can register to get a free X.509 certificate. Excellent timing :-) !!! I planed to generate one, but with such an offer...

This morning I woke up at 4:30 AM, and could not sleep anymore, so I decided to work on my publishing tool for my site Tech Head Brothers. I finally managed to publish directly from Word 2003 in a secure way. The website exposes a publishing web service that uses WS-Policy, to specify that it needs Signature and Encryption using a X.509 certificate. When the user hits the publish button, the tool:

• Transform the XML generated by Word 2003, e.g. to include pictures, colorize source code...
• Zip the XML document and all referenced files (pictures, zip)
• Attach the zip file using DIME to the SOAP context
• Add signature and encryption to the SOAP context
• Call the web service