This is a conceptual question, but after goggling and searching through online resources, I cannot find an answer to this small question. Any help would be appreciated. Thanking in advance.
The question came up when I was using the eNOM API to perform multiple operations using the test account they provide.
https://resellertest.enom.com/interface.asp?command=nameofcommand&
uid=yourloginid&pw=yourpassword&
paramname=paramvalue&nextparamname=nextparamvalue
Note: This is just an example Url. The password field here actually an 'api-key'.
The native coldfusion solution of using CFhttp has proved to be beneficial in terms of handling output data easily or passing headers and parameters to a RESTful API. The first question that arises was: does CFhttp encrypts the password fields as supported it CUrl and if not is there any way to implement it?. Secondly, I found this piece of text while reading about CUrl and CFHTTP:
cURL allows you to connect and communicate to many different types of servers with many different types of protocols. Using cURL you can.
- Implement payment gateways’ payment notification scripts.
- Download and upload files from remote servers.
- Login to other websites and access members only sections.
So, are the points no. 1 & 2 possible using CFhttp? and if yes can I have a short idea on how to go about doing it.
Curl allows you to connect to any https site without having to install the 'required' certificate. Although some might call this insecure, i really like this feature. Besides this feature i do not believe there is much (if anything) you can do with curl which cannot be done with cfhttp somehow.
If you work with https sites a lot curl is easier to work with then CFHTTP (imo).
According to the coldfusion docs the cfhttp tag uses SSL to negotiate secure transactions. (reference http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7ffc.html)
Update: You can monitor if the data is sent encrypted or not using the build in proxy in coldfusion. See http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-mx-monitoring-soap-traffic.html for more details.