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NAME

XML::Compile::WSS - OASIS Web Services Security

INHERITANCE

 XML::Compile::WSS is extended by
   XML::Compile::WSS::BasicAuth
   XML::Compile::WSS::Signature
   XML::Compile::WSS::Timestamp

SYNOPSIS

 # This modules can be used "stand-alone" ==>
 my $schema = XML::Compile::Cache->new(...);
 my $auth   = XML::Compile::WSS::BasicAuth->new
   (schema => $schema, username => $user, ...);
 my $elem   = $auth->create($doc, $data);

 # ==> or as SOAP slave
 my $wss    = XML::Compile::SOAP::WSS->new;
 my $wsdl   = XML::Compile::WSDL11->new($wsdlfn);
 my $auth   = $wss->basicAuth(username => $user, ...);  # once!

 # SOAP call, compile on demand
 my $answer = $wsdl->call($operation, wsse_Security => $auth, %data);
 # same, because "all" defined is default, $auth is in 'all'
 my $answer = $wsdl->call($operation, %data);

 # or SOAP call, explicit compile
 my $call   = $wsdl->compileClient($operation);
 my $answer = $call->(%data);

DESCRIPTION

The Web Services Security working group of W3C develops a set of standards which add signatures and encryption to XML.

This module implements features in the Security header. One header may contain more than one of these features:

Furthermore

METHODS

Constructors

XML::Compile::WSS->new(OPTIONS)
 -Option     --Default
  prepare      'ALL'
  schema       undef
  version      undef
  wss_version  <required>
prepare => 'READER'|'WRITER'|'ALL'|'NONE'
schema => an XML::Compile::Cache object

Add the WSS extension information to the provided schema. If not provided at instantiation, you have to call loadSchemas() before compiling readers and writers.

version => STRING

Alternative for wss_version, but not always as clear.

wss_version => '1.1'|MODULE

[1.0] Explicitly state which version WSS needs to be produced. You may use a version number. You may also use the MODULE name, which is a namespace constant, provided via ::Util. The only option is currently WSS11MODULE.

Attributes

$obj->schema()

Returns the schema used to implement this feature.

$obj->wssVersion()

Returns the version number.

Apply

$obj->check(SECURITY)

Check whether received SECURITY information is correct. Each active WSS feature must check whether it finds information for it.

$obj->create(DOC, SECURITY, DATA)

Adds some WSS element to SECURITY. The DATA is the structure which is passed to some writer (for instance, the DATA which the user passes to the SOAP call). There is quite some flexibility in that structure, so should not be used, in general.

Helpers

$obj->dateTime(TIME|STRING|HASH)

Returns a structure which can be used as timestamp, for instance in Created and Expires fields. This helper function will help you use these timestamp fields correctly.

The WSU10 specification defines a free format timestamp. Of course, that is very impractical. Typically a "design by committee" decission. Also, the standard does not describe the ValueType field, which is often used to cover this design mistake.

example:

  # Both will get ValueType="$xsd/dateTime"
  Created => time()                 # will get formatted
  Created => '2012-10-14T22:26:21Z' # autodected ValueType

  # Explicit formatting
  Created => { _ => 'this Christmas'
             , ValueType => 'http://per6.org/releasedates'
             };

  # No ValueType added
  Created => '2012-11-01'

Internals

$obj->loadSchemas(SCHEMA, VERSION)
XML::Compile::WSS->loadSchemas(SCHEMA, VERSION)

SCHEMA must extend XML::Compile::Cache.

The SCHEMA settings will may changed a little. For one, the allow_undeclared flag will be set. Also, any_element will be set to 'ATTEMPT' and mixed_elements to 'STRUCTURAL'.

You can not mix multiple versions of WSS inside one SCHEMA, because there will be too much confusion about prefixes.

$obj->writerHookWsuId(TYPE)

Creates a hook for an XML producer (writer), to understand wsu:Id on elements of TYPE.

DETAILS

Specifications

A huge number of specifications act in this field. Every self respecting company has contributed its own implementation into the field. A lot of this is not supported, but the list of constants should be complete in XML::Compile::WSS::Util.

  • XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20110303/, 3 March 2011

  • XML Signature Properties

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmldsig-properties-20110303/, 3 March 2011

  • XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/CR-xmldsig-core1-20110303/, 3 March 2011

  • SOAP message security

    http://docs.oasis-open.org/wss/2004/01/oasis-200401-wss-soap-message-security-1.0.pdf, March 2004

  • XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition)

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xmldsig-core-20080610/, 10 June 2008

  • RFC4050 Using the ECDSA for XML Digital Signatures

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4050.txt, april 2005

  • RFC4051 Additional XML Security Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)

    http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4051.txt, april 2005

  • XML Encryption Syntax and Processing

    http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmlenc-core-20021210/, 10 December 2002

SEE ALSO

This module is part of XML-Compile-WSS distribution version 1.10, built on January 06, 2014. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/xml-compile/

Other distributions in this suite: XML::Compile, XML::Compile::SOAP, XML::Compile::WSDL11, XML::Compile::SOAP12, XML::Compile::SOAP::Daemon, XML::Compile::SOAP::WSA, XML::Compile::C14N, XML::Compile::WSS, XML::Compile::WSS::Signature, XML::Compile::Tester, XML::Compile::Cache, XML::Compile::Dumper, XML::Compile::RPC, XML::Rewrite and XML::LibXML::Simple.

Please post questions or ideas to the mailinglist at http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xml-compile . For live contact with other developers, visit the #xml-compile channel on irc.perl.org.

LICENSE

Copyrights 2011-2014 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html