is curl secure 1

[stasJohn]

I'm not sure if this is the appropriate place to ask this, but here goes.

I'm building an account sign-up form for a bank. Basically, they don't have the facilities to store the information in-house so we are using a 3rd party "secure-forms" service.

So, the application is a three step process and at the end, all form information is sent to this 3rd party using curl. The 3rd partys servers are ssl enabled as well as the clients website.

I only know a little about curl, so I was just wondering, is using curl to transfer the information between the servers secure?

Hope I was clear. Thanks in advance.

 

[sleipnir214]

As with any web communication, data sent by cURL is as secure as the connection on which it is transmitted. If the bank is using SSL and cURL has OpenSSL available to it, then your data should be secure.




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[stasJohn]

Openssl is installed. Does something special need to be done to make it available to curl?

thanks for the response.

 

[sleipnir214]

No. If you can make a SSL connection to a site, then the OpenSSL libraries are available to cURL.



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[stasJohn]

nice... okay thanks!