Username/Pswrd encryption in FMP URL?

[onefish]

Just a really quick question, is there any way to use some level of encryption for username/password contained in an FMP URL? I suspect not but it could present a security risk sending the the data unencrypted.

[Mike Duncan]

Hi onefish,

Absolutely not. What problem are you trying to solve by doing this?

[James Gill]

I mean you could use some sort of encrpytion/decryption in the url when storing parameters to at least obfuscate the data stored in the url.  I have an AES_Encrypt/Decrypt function that I use to store & set a field for username that is sent via email.  When a user clicks the link it opens a Web Direct database and performs a script that decrypts the value stored in the parameter.

 

But that's just for username.  I would never send a password via a url parameter.

Edited February 18, 2016 by James Gill