[MOBY-dev] BioMOBY ping

[Edward Kawas]

Hi Pieter, 

> I'm having a problem with the BioMOBY ping thing. As far as I 
> know the services I had registered in the central BioMOBY 
> Central respond correctly to a BioMOBY ping request. They are 
> listed as dead though on the BioMOBY website and I'm 
> wondering why. The current suspects are:
> 
> * Base64 encoded output. Does the agent decode base64 content 
> correctly?
> * HTTPS. My services require an https connection. If the 
> agent is using Perl code it will probably complain about not 
> being able to validate the certificate, but execute anyway. 
> If the agent was written in Java it will refuse to execute 
> the service if the SSL certificates can not be validated. Our 
> certificates are self-signed, so you'd have to add them to 
> your keystore to be able to execute our services with a Java client.
> 
I bet that its listed as dead because of authentication. What can I do to get
around this?

Thanks,

Eddie