[ENHANCEMENT REQUEST] LiveCode Server needs a way to disable SSL verification check

[Andre Garzia]

Hey Folks,

Sometimes you need to use a self-signed certificate with a server that you
want to access with LiveCode. When using LiveCode with Desktop Apps, you
can issue libURLSetSSLVerification false and be happy but if you're using
LiveCode server, then you're lost because there is no way to disable the
check and the connection will fail if you use an self-signed certificate.

A real world scenario is using a credit card payment processor server that
listens on a secure socket. To do transactions we need to do HTTPS POST
requests to the server but they fail because the server uses a self-signed
certificate. No all SSL certificates need to be signed by a CA to be
useful. We need this feature or we'll soon have to move to PHP or to some
other language that allows us to use self-signed certificates.

Our previous versions used shell() calls to CURL but we wan't to move away
from that.


For those that need the feature, this is the bug:

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10177

Cheers
andre

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