[CentOS] Server to server communication

John R Pierce pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Mar 19 08:29:35 UTC 2008


D Steward wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 07:41 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
>   
>> you can pass 1K of info on a URL as arguments to a http 'page' which 
>> invokes your program in whatever web-language its written in.
>>     
>
> Well, the data is rather sensitive - authentication tokens, IPs and
> possibly cookies and/or password hashes, so doing a POST is more prudent
> than putting it in the URL.
> I forgot about the possibility of invoking an app or script via use of
> PHP so thanks for giving me a hint.
>   

you realize POST data is virtually the same as GET data in an http 
request?  if you use https, then its all encrypted. 

re: invoking an app by php...  if you're talking about php on the 
'server' side, just use cgi-bin the old fashion way and your code is 
invoked directly.



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