Question about security posting data to web services using SmartPill..??
I've got a small application which is using SmartPill to make web service calls to PayPal and eBay. Sometimes the data being posted includes credit card information. Of course the POST goes to PayPal's secure SSL servers, but without any type of SSL locally is this secure?
Any tips I can get about this would be great. I've got a couple of clients that are curious about this and I hadn't really thought about it myself. I know on web applications I always get an SSL anytime people are entering CC data into my site, but since this actually just in FileMaker and not in a web browser it didn't really occur to me until it was asked.
Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Question about security posting data to web services
I'm not an expert on this by any means but if you're connecting to a secure web service, I don't think there's anything you need to do on the FileMaker side. In fact, I'm pretty sure that your connection would be refused if it wasn't secure.
Are you using curl to do your post? If so, I'm guessing that you had to install a local cert file? For example, I have a "ca-bundle.crt" file installed on my local machine and I have to override the location of this file when using curl (it's one of the curl options, sorry I don't have it's name handy).
Regards,
Micah