The secure environment refers to the transmission of
information from web browser to web server. If you have a link to
an order form, for example, from your home page, you would need
to use a URL similar to following:
- https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/<userid>/form.htm
(XX = server number)
The "s" in https:// suggests an SSL related file.
Substitute the path to the order form starting with user
directory name. If your account resides on server #2, you would
need to use https://www02.rapidsite.net/<userid>/form.htm
or 03, 04, etc. respectively depending on which server the secure
form resides.
If the secure form calls a cgi script, you must also reference
that script securely.
- e.g. <form method="post"
action="https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/<userid>/cgi-local/order.cgi">
Note: Upgrading to a High Volume account requires a change of
web server. In such instances, users will need to update their
HTML to reflect the new server number.
Retrieving Data From Server
As mentioned above, the secure environment refers to the
transmission of information between web browser and web server.
We suggest that you have a script written to save the submitted
form content to a text file. In so doing, you can reference the
text via secure URL and retrieve its content (e.g. credit card
information) securely via the web thus completing the loop.
- e.g.
https://wwwXX.rapidsite.net/<userid>/datafile.txt
To protect the data from unauthorized web surfers, you can
store the data file(s) in a password
protected directory.
An alternative is to have the submitted form content sent to
you via email. If your form references a custom script, you will
need to reference the script securely. We have not implemented a
solution for encrypting email.