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SSL WebRequest

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HouDog

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Hi All,

I have a little client utility that runs in the background and gathers sales data on a client machine and sends it to our web-site via the message body of a http request (webrequest) and setting the Method="POST". The problem is that the data is very sensitive (credit card#s, etc). My question is this...Is SSL the way to go here ? Are there other ways for me to secure my data for transmission?

This whole process does not involve any user interaction so will there be any annoying pop-up windows appearing telling me that I am entering a secure site ?

Also, we have a primary web site and a backup web site, both coming into 2 separate ISA servers which then route the requests into 1 IIS server. Does this mean that I need 2 SSL certificates ? And what kind of SSL certificate do I need? Will a Web Server Certificate do ?

Thanks in advance.

JH.
 
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