[xmlsec] Signing a document that will be altered

Aleksey Sanin aleksey at aleksey.com
Sun Jun 29 19:19:02 PDT 2008


I highly doubt that http headers are involved in the signatures...
At least, not with xmlsec.

Aleksey

Brian.Myers at zootweb.com wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I think I'm running into a problem where the digital signature is being 
> made invalid due to an http post.
> Before I send my message to serverB I encrypt it and sign it, I then 
> post the message to the server.
> The post obviously adds http headers to the beginning of the message, 
> such as ContentType, ContentLength, ect.
> I'm guessing that even though these headers are not inside the xml 
> document, they are still affecting my digest.
> 
> Is there a way to force the sign method to only sign the xml as opposed 
> to the whole string? and also force
> the severB verifier to verify the xml?
> 
> Thank you,
> Brian
> 
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