Is WS-Security truly interoperable across platforms?

Based on my research here and elsewhere, there is reasonably good support among Java, . NET (excluding Mono), and C/C++ via Apache Axis. The waters seem to grow murkier when you look at some of the "P" languages (Perl, Python, PHP) and Ruby, though.

I found some libraries in various stages of maturity and some articles that explain how to rig something up using a few different tools, but nothing that gives me great confidence.

Based on my research here and elsewhere, there is reasonably good support among Java, . NET (excluding Mono), and C/C++ via Apache Axis. The waters seem to grow murkier when you look at some of the "P" languages (Perl, Python, PHP) and Ruby, though.

I found some libraries in various stages of maturity and some articles that explain how to rig something up using a few different tools, but nothing that gives me great confidence. Several articles--rightly, I think--question the usefulness of WS-Security if you're simply trying to secure a point-to-point communication, particularly since SSL/TLS already gives you encryption, end-point authentication, and message integrity guarantees, and support for it is near-ubiquitous across languages.

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