Security

Aculab cloud requires that web service requests are made in a secure manner.

• Protocol Check

• Protocol Check

  This is used to check if the security protocol use for web service requests is sufficiently secure.

  Authorisation

  This API uses basic authentication, using your cloud account username and API Access Key.

  Username	:	cloudID/username (e.g. 1-2-0/bob@example.com)
  Password	:	API Access key

  Request:

  Url	:	https://ws.aculabcloud.net/security/protocol_check
  Methods	:	GET, POST

  
  

  Returns:

  A JSON object containing the result of the security protocol check and other diagnostic information.

  Parameter	Value	Description
  pass	boolean	true if the connection is secure, false otherwise.
  protocol	string	the protocol used, e.g. TLSv1.2.
  cipher	string	the cipher used.
  user_agent	string	the User-Agent header passed in the request. If the header was not present, an empty string is returned
  source_address	string	the source address of the request that reached the web services server.
  reason	string	a description of the cause of a failed check. Not present if the check passed.

  Example:

  https://ws.aculabcloud.net/security/protocol_check

  Response:

    {
      "pass": true,
      "protocol": "TLSv1.2",
      "cipher": "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256",
      "user_agent": "Aculab PHP Web Services wrapper v1.0.5 (PHP 7.4.4, OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019, WINNT)",
      "source_address": "203.0.113.34"
    }