i would recommend your first option which is going over ssl. if this is all within the same network, then SSL will be enough to keep prying eyes out.
if its over public networks, then would probably suggest trying to figure out what is going wrong with the encrypt/decrypt function you are using (base64 suggestion below). -d ..oO David Wang Oo.. ..oO blog - http://www.udfi.biz ..oO JennieBot! - http://www.jenniebot.com On Feb 1, 2010, at 12:59 PM, pghoratiu wrote: > If you have problems with data transmission I suggest you try out one > of the following functions: > http://php.net/manual/en/function.convert-uuencode.php > http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.base64-encode.php > to convert the binary string into something that can be safely > transfered over the network. > > Best regards, > > gabriel > > On Feb 1, 6:50 pm, Paul Frazee <pfra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Heyo. This is a repost from the forums; I'm in need of some sage >> advice here. Read on: >> >> The company keeps two databases - the master, which holds sensitive >> data, and the slave, which replicates only the insensitive data. This >> is actually pretty easy in MySQL, you should check it out. >> >> Anywho, every so often, the website, which typically uses the public >> slave database, needs to modify data on the private master database. >> (AKA the user changes his profile or buys something.) No problem, I >> just need to create a secure (and mostly one-way) webservice that >> accepts the data from the website. >> >> The trick is that I need to send this data from the controller, and I >> need to encrypt the data. My first solution was to create a POST >> request using the sfWebBrowser plugin, which then gets an XML >> response. Yaba-daba-doo, that works. >> >> Then I decide to encrypt. I mycrpt and send and... can't seem to get >> the data or initialization vector to arrive. Why-oh-why? My best guess >> is that encrypted data doesn't play nicely with POST validation. The >> data is probably out of typical character range. >> >> So at this juncture I decide to stop and ask, is my path righteous? Is >> there an algorithm which will play nicely with POST, or should I use >> cURL to create an SSL connection, or is a POST request completely off- >> base? >> >> Has anybody had similar experience? >> >> Thanks > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en.
