Chapter 9. DCOM Through SSL

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • RDS and HTTP

  • DCOM Tunneling Through TCP/IP

  • Building a DCOM-HTTPS Application

For C/C++ programmers, the normal way to activate Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) communications is through the Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) . Implementing the Security Support Provider Interface is a very difficult and complex way to use SSL communications. It would be preferable if there were a simpler way to perform secure communications between a client and a server.

Well, it just so happens that there is a much simpler way. In fact, you can accomplish this goal using two very similar methods. Both involve marshaling DCOM (Distributed COM , or Component Object Model) communications between client applications ...

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