philipkershaw/myproxywebservice

MyProxy Web Service Package

Provides a simple web service interface to MyProxyCA. MyProxy is a Service for managing and issuing PKI based credentials which is part of the Globus Toolkit. MyProxyWebService provides a HTTP based wrapper interface to MyProxy enabling HTTP based clients to connect to a MyProxy server and retrieve credentials.

The interface is implemented as a WSGI application which fronts a normal MyProxyCA server. myproxy-logon and myproxy-get-trustroots are expressed as web service calls. The WSGI application forwards the requests on to the MyProxy server over the usual MyProxy protocol. The web service interface is RESTful using GET and POST operations and the logon interface makes uses of HTTP Basic Auth to pass username and pass-phrase credentials. The service is hosted over HTTPS.

The unit tests include a test application served using paster. Client scripts are also available which need no specialised installation or applications, only openssl and wget or curl which are typically available on Linux/UNIX based systems.

Tests

Unit test module with test files is in myproxy/ws/test/ and myproxy/ws/client/test.

Documentation

Epydoc generated documentation is available in documentation/. run the Makefile to regenerate if required. Also see setup.py for a summary.