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- Fax Web Service Interface
Concords Fax Web service Interface was designed to provide the most comprehensive control over your fax integration needs. With both Inbound and Outbound interfaces available you can send requests via Web Services and SOAP that will perform such tasks as submitting faxes, checking status, or polling the server for inbound faxes that can be downloaded. Such requests can be submitted from any application that is capable of calling Web Service methods.
- FTP Protocol
FTP, or “File Transfer Protocol” is a standard protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a network. Simple to use but not secure as is with authentication is sent in clear text. You can use SSL over FTP but it’s not the best choice because FTP uses multiple TCP connections which can make it hard to enforce when multiple clients are accessing the server simultaneously. For this reason for secure FTP we suggest using FTPS (TLS) or SFTP (SSH).
- FTPS Protocol
FTPS is an extension to the FTP standard where a client can explicitly or implicitly challenge the FTPS server for security. An explicit request over FTPS requires the client to challenge the server with a valid mechanism for negotiating security authentication. The server receives the challenge and either accepts or denies the connection. Common mechanisms for FTPS security are AUTH TLS and AUTH SSL. With Implicit FTPS configurations the client immediately challenges the FTPS server with a TLS/SSL ClientHello message and if it is not received the server should drop the connection.
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- Interface
Interface is used extensively in this document in place of the long form of ‘Application Program Interface’. At Concord we provide many interfaces to assist you in your integration of fax services with our platform. From the simplicity of leveraging existing systems like SMTP or Intranet HTTP interface, to integration with more control like our FTP interface, or our Inbound/outbound web services interfaces for the ultimate control in building your own applications in a number of languages.
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- Object
In object-oriented programming, a object is a construct that is used as a blueprint to create instances of itself – referred to as object instances. A object defines constituent members which enable these object instances to have state and behavior. Data field members (member variables or instance variables) enable a object to maintain state. Other kinds of members, especially methods, enable a object's behavior. Object instances are of the type of the associated class.
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- PUSH Notification Interface
The Push notification interface is used to send notifications information back to client applications regarding the status of submitted fax delivery requests. This interface does not support any submission features. The Push notification interface supports many protocols, including HTTP POST, and HTTP GET.
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- SFTP Protocol
“SSH File Transfer Protocol”, or STFP is not related to FTP beyond its abilities and user commands of which are very similar. Encrypting both commands and data it’s a more secure protocol choice over FTP.
- SMTP Interface
Concords SMTP interface receives a submission request via SMTP email messages. Submission requests can be submitted from any email client, or custom application capable of generating email messages. Customization and feature control are enabled through tokens that can be used in your submissions, while notifications can be managed and configured to suit your needs best.
- SOAP
SOAP is an acronym that stands for ‘Simple Object Access Protocol’. SOAP is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information in the implementation of Web Services. SOAP relies on a number of other common protocols in its function like XML, HTTP, and SMTP which enables control through most popular programming languages such as .NET, C++, Java, Perl or PHP.
- String
Represents text as a & series of Unicode characters.
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- Unicode
Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.
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- Web service
A software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically Web Services Description Language, known by the acronym WSDL). Other systems interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.
- WSDL
WSDL is an XML format for describing network services as a set of endpoints operating on messages containing either document-oriented or procedure-oriented information. The operations and messages are described abstractly, and then bound to a concrete network protocol and message format to define an endpoint. Related concrete endpoints are combined into abstract endpoints (services). WSDL is extensible to allow description of endpoints and their messages regardless of what message formats or network protocols are used to communicate. For integration with Concord this protocol is SOAP.