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Golden Braeburn is a Golden Lemon
Authored by: alblue on Aug 13, '08 04:18:23PM

Sadly, it's not possible to use the in-app purchasing system behind a firewall or through proxies. This is because the protocol used for passing your credit card details to the back-end server doesn't use the industry standard and encrypted HTTPS (like the Apple App Store and iTunes Store does) but rather has invented its own non-standard protocol on non-standard ports. It's quite possible that the information transmitted is therefore unencrypted.

Unfortunately, there's no way around this since the author of the application doesn't understand how to architect client-server solutions properly in this day and age, and says so as much here in a lacklustre response. Furthermore, other apps using the Golden Braeburn solution for their purchasing mechanism are similarly broken.



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