Hi, I have a problem with n/w concepts. I have a requirement where a user has to check in the mail document into the document management system. The user sits in canada. The document management server sits in US. Both the machines are in different n/w domain. But both user and the document management server is for the same company. Only thing is that the networks are different. For communicating between the two computers we are planning to give a SOAP call using http (Of course it is SOAP). But should this web service be necessarily published as a world wide web service? Because we want to avoid unnecessary cost over heads like verisign certification and rest. Please let me know if we can have any other techniques for achieving this? Also, correct me if I am wrong. Thanks, Hari. T.Harihara

On your webserver, you can generate your own certificate for free since it is not for public usage. Also, there is cheaper registry that offer certificate under $200. Second thing, you can establish a IPsec tunnel between the offices and use http based soap instead of httpS. Danny Larouche, cwna ciw