Re: [Htmlunit-user] SSL Client Certificate

[Tristan J. <tt7...@gm...>]

Very helpful thank you very much. In this case it seems absolute that I do
not need to provide a client certificate (as PayPal has its own server side
one and would not recognize mine anyways)
On Aug 24, 2016 2:30 AM, "Ahmed Ashour" <asa...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There are two things, server Certificate and (optional) client certificate.
>
> SSL ensures your password is secure.
>
> You need to trust the server certificate only if it not trusted by its
> chain (in which case you would get an SSL exception).
>
> You don't provider your own certificate, except if the server needs client
> certificate and yours is known to it.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ahmed
>
>
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> *From:* Tristan Janicki <tt7...@gm...>
> *To:* "htm...@li..." <htmlunit-user@lists.
> sourceforge.net>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 23, 2016 7:33 AM
> *Subject:* [Htmlunit-user] SSL Client Certificate
>
> I've been creating a program that will log into a given paypal account and
> then navigate to the activities page to pull all the transactions on that
> list to be displayed in a table. However, I'm wondering if the credentials
> of the user that's logging in will be secure or not. Paypal of course uses
> HTTPs/SSL etc. but my question is do I need to provide a certificate of my
> own? If not then will the user name and password still be as safe as if I
> was using my normal chrome browser? Would distributing this app make the
> login credentials insecure (past the inherit ability to find them in the
> source code).
>
> It says here that I don't need to have one on my side but I'd just like
> to be absolutely sure.
>
>  ~ Thank you in advance.
>
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