RE: [PHP] File Transfer over HTTPS
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:44:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] File Transfer over HTTPS | ||
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> My goal is to have someone on a Windows machine running a program be able to
> transfer a file from the client workstation to my web server over HTTPS (but
> without a browser). With CURL, does the client need to run this app on
> their system? Of course, I would like this to be as simple and
> non-intrusive as possible.
Yes, they would. The SSL protocol is complex involving a key exchange and
then encryption done client-side. You are going to have to run something
on the client to do this.
-Rasmus