Re: Your existing web service data connections in IPFS

Shiraz Cupala — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:45:10 GMT

Thanks for that info! More folks are interested in IPFS and this will be valuable reference.

Your existing web service data connections in IPFS

davidair — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:33:52 GMT

There are many ways of migrating your InfoPath data connections to the Forms Server (there is an excellent posting about it on The InfoPath Team Blog:http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/06/14/631088.aspx) The simplest of them is the Web service proxy:http://blogs.msdn.com/infopath/archive/2006/07/03/655611.aspx. The method of using the proxy is more secure than allowing anonymous access to your web services and yet it is more lightweight than setting up SSO. However, there is a rather important limitation when using the proxy approach to connect InfoPath to your web services:

The web service must be running on the same machine as InfoPath Forms Server in order for the proxy to work.

The reason for this is that the InfoPath Web Service proxy runs under a trusted account, but this account is local to the machine. That means that the moment the proxy tries to connect outside, it is no longer trusted and has no extra privileges than InfoPath Forms Server itself.

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