Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-27 Thread JosepM
Hi, One question about SSL and shared hostings plans. My host show a shared SSL with mySQL databases, but I don't know how test this kind of connection. Any idea or experience? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Https-sslVerific

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Andre - that gives me some confidence that proceeding without the certificates is OK (i.e. the data is still encrypted) because really all I'm concerned about is that the username and password data I send to each of the sites isn't visible to snoopers. Having said that I'm still confused

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Terry, There are two different things happening here. One is SSL encryption which protects the communication between your machine and the remote machine, the other is user authentication that protects the other machine from unauthorized access. For LiveCode to trust/accept an SSL certificate as v

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Jim Sims
Have you tried a web monitoring tool? So you can watch the traffic back and forth? I use "Charles" on OS X. sims On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Terry Judd wrote: > I don't think that's the problem. I know at least one of the sites has a > session cookie but that doesn't seem to be involved in

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Jim Sims
Maybe there is a cookie involved somewhere? sims --- On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Terry Judd wrote: > Attention web gurus, > > I’m probably going about it all wrong but I’m still struggling to retrieve > data from a series of secure (https) websites. Each of these sites requires > a username

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
I don't think that's the problem. I know at least one of the sites has a session cookie but that doesn't seem to be involved in the initial authentication. One of the sites definitely doesn't use any cookies and I have the same problems even if I only try to connect to this site. Terry... On 25/

Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
Attention web gurus, I¹m probably going about it all wrong but I¹m still struggling to retrieve data from a series of secure (https) websites. Each of these sites requires a username and password and I can post these along with the url and am able to retrieve the expected result but ONLY if I set