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VB6:User registration w. secure transfer

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by chirila

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I have an application written in VB6.
How can I securely transfer data (user registration) from my application to a website (ftp server)? I only have a ftp account with full rights, I made a test with a sniffer program and it revealed my FTP account information. Any suggestion?

Thanks a lot.

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by ncseric

The easiest solution would be to use secure FTP. Secure FTP uses encryption for data going back and forth to your server. There are components available from companies like Mabry Software (www.mabry.com) to do secure FTP, and you would just have to get a FTP server that supports secure FTP. I did a quick search on Google and found many different ones that handle SFTP.

The alternative would be to post the data to a web server using HTTPS. This would be a change to your programming, but you could use either a traditional CGI POST syntax or use a web service. Either way will require new code but would not require anything more than setting up a secure HTTP site on the server.

- Eric

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