you the order. That way your system can process the order at the time
and send back succes or failure over the webservice.
Adam H
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:58:14 -0400, Chris Johnston
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 02:10:52 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > What's the best way to securely transfer customer's order information from an Affiliate
> > back to our company, the distributor?
>
> SSL
>
> > After an Affiliate's order has been successfully taken, we're suggesting the Affiliate Web site write
> > the order information to an XML template that we'll define and then give to each Affiliate
> > a secure folder to ftp the XML file to. We perform a similar process with this type of XML
> > data importing. I just wanted to get some feedback if anyone had any other ideas or better methods.
> >
>
> I am not sure if this is possible, but instead of having them ftp the
> file back, why not have them feed it into another web service on you
> website over SSL? This way the information is both secure and already
> in your database to be acted upon.
>
> Otherwise, I would suggest setting up sftp on a server. At least the
> information will be encrypted during transmission.
>
> --
> chris johnston
>
> www.fuzzylizard.com
> "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals and
> something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination, we
> learned to talk."
> Pink Floyd
>
>
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