Form Security

[Peter B]

Hi all. Does anyone know if it is possible to send data from a form (
constructed with Formshandler components ) via https or something simular as
I would like to secure the information being sent from the form as opposed
to it just being an plain email. Thanks Pete

[LBA]

Instead of receiving the data via email, you could store it on the server in a password protected folder.

[Twayne]

In news:je7874$5qn$1@DailyPlanet.news.netobjects.com,
Peter B <Peter@mynewbed.co.uk> typed:
> Hi all. Does anyone know if it is possible to send data
> from a form ( constructed with Formshandler components )
> via https or something simular as I would like to secure
> the information being sent from the form as opposed to it
> just being an plain email. Thanks Pete

If you have the patience to learn an html-like and html compatble language
like PHP, it does a pretty decent job of being able to enforce security
because everything happens on the server side, wiith nothin showing in the
resulting HTML it produces. It's reasonably east to learn and is used by
many.
www.w3schools.com and www.php.net are two great sites with a LOT of good
PHP niformation and tutorials. It can also safely send the form inputs to
your Inbox or wherever you want them sent.
PHP is open source and free as is an Apache server if you later with to
install one for testing code locally. XAMPP and WAMPP are popular versions.
A version of PHP comes with Apache but it's best to see what version your
remote servers are using and use that same version to avoid a lot of
beginner's problems.

Less efficent is to use the server's cgi bin if it's avalable to you and
simply store the forms data in there. Of course, you have to manually access
your site to read any input that may have arriived; not very efficient of
convenient.


HTH,

Twayne`