I understand that MySQL has SSL ability (recently added? dunno...) and am having a little trouble find much about it (which makes me a tad suspicious, given the source of the information...)
Anyone know about it? How do you call the connection from PHP? Any differently than normal? What port, for example?
Amazing what a search of "ssl" on mysql's website turns up.:rolleyes:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Secure_connections.html
Originally posted by TruckStuff Amazing what a search of "ssl" on mysql's website turns up.:rolleyes: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Secure_connections.html
Great, now, how do we know that PHP is accessing the server with an encrypted connection, and that it will be properly received by PHP?
originally posted by dalecosp Anyone know about it? How do you call the connection from PHP? Any differently than normal? What port, for example?
It's also amazing how hard it is to see the real questions when you're driving by so fast.... :rolleyes: :p
Oh yes... i see.
I don't really know much about SSL but i am learning so i can put it in action for my company. I will let you know as soon as i find the answer to this.
So, can you force MySQL to use ONLY SSL connections (you know, like that other, ahem, real RDBMS I use can do)???
If so, then that might be a useful testing technique.
Hmm if anyone gets this to work it would be great...
Here is what I needed to do in order to compile MySQL 4.0.13 with OpenSSL support on a redhat box
www.commcarepharmacy.com/palm/
Unfortunately, the PHP server that i need to access this database is on a windows machine, and the windows binaries are not compiled against the new MySQL API yet... 🙁
Originally posted by Sxooter So, can you force MySQL to use ONLY SSL connections (you know, like that other, ahem, real RDBMS I use can do)??? If so, then that might be a useful testing technique.
Indeed ... it might be as simple as a firewall, if they used seperate ports...
Maybe we should just /dev/null this thread --- all my servers use MySQL on the localhost; I was curious because I read a thread regarding this on another forum. FWIW, they didn't get too far, either. Especially not even as far as Sxooter....
