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Hi, James,

I suggest you take a look at:

    https://sourceforge.net/projects/wwwvalid/

WWWVALID is an IBM i based web authentication validation tool-kit.

Also, look at "OAuth" -- an industry-standard authentication scheme:

    https://oauth.net/2/   ;

Hope that helps,

Mark S. Waterbury


On Thursday, September 3, 2020, 11:38:00 AM EDT, James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Midrange and HTTPAPI/FTPAPI Lists:

We have a situation in which we have AS/400 programs (created and
running on customer boxes), called from batch jobs, that access web
services (which we host), which require a sign-on. Access is via HTTPAPI.

The problem is protecting the web service sign-on information from the
prying eyes of potentially malicious users.

If we call a "factory" program or module that vends the information,
what's to stop anybody who can see the call in the source from writing
their own program to call the factory?

If we provide a "wrapper" that passes the information to the programs
that call the web services, what's to stop anybody who sees how the
programs get the information from the wrapper from plugging their own
programs into the wrapper?

Anybody know of any good ideas in this regard?

JHHL

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