credit cards and fP

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Fairlight wrote:

> Someone came to me today with a request.  They use my RawQuery program to
> handle credit card requests to the financial institution.  Apparently,
> either one financial institution's rules changed, or PCI compliance now (or
> always has and is just being cracked down on) dictates that information not
> be written even temporarily to the hard drive.  So I've been told.
> 
> RawQuery uses a file for its data field input.  I -can- make it possible to
> specify that it read its file from STDIN for IPC purposes.  The problem is
> filePro integration.  There's no way to -get it there-.  filePro's binaries
> all use STDOUT for their screen drawing, there's no (known, tTBOMK) way to
> suppress that without redirecting the entire stream, and fP lacks a popen()
> function that would make STDIN streams in called programs tennable.
> 
> Any known solutions/workarounds?  Only thing I could think of would be
> using a named pipe, but that's *nix only.
> 
> Seems like fP went from raw file I/O directly to sockets without covering
> the middle ground of IPC pipes.  Not good...
> 
> Looking for a solution, in case others come up with this same request.  I
> -can- make the necessary adjustments in my software, but it does no
> apparent good when considering what fP is currently capable of doing (or
> not).
> 
> Don't even suggest putting it on the command line.  That's going to show up
> in the process table and be way more insecure than file storage will ever
> be.  Open to any reasonable IPC solution.  Preferably 4.8/5.0.x compatible.

Could you use a socket-to-socket link, on the same machine?

And I believe pipes (both anonymous and named) are possible in Windows. 
Pretty sure of it.

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....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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