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admin_menu:site_setup:remote_api_security_keys:start [2008/12/23 00:19]
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 ====== Remote API Security Keys ====== ====== Remote API Security Keys ======
  
-These settings are used to connect and interact with your site, from "external" software. The security keys will be different for every Geo installation you have.  This page only displays information that you may need, in order to allow software to connect to your site.  There are not settings that can be changed on this page, just information.+Admin Page: **Site Setup > Remote API Security Keys** 
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 +These settings are used to connect and interact with your site, from "external" software. It allows software running on a different domain name, even on a different server altogether((Or even from the same server and domain name)), to interact with the Geo software remotely. 
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 +The security keys listed on this page will be different for every Geo installation you have.  This page only displays information that you may need, in order to allow other software to connect to your site.  There are not settings that can be changed on this page, just information.
  
 For security reasons, **never give out any of the API Security Keys to anyone that you do not trust**, especially the "Master API Key". For security reasons, **never give out any of the API Security Keys to anyone that you do not trust**, especially the "Master API Key".
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 ==== Keys to use specific API Calls ==== ==== Keys to use specific API Calls ====
 These keys can only be used for their specific API call.  This level of security allows you to give out a "key" (or to give out a script that contains a key), that goes to one specific API call to do one specific thing, without worrying about granting access to allow doing anything else in the system that you might not want to allow. These keys can only be used for their specific API call.  This level of security allows you to give out a "key" (or to give out a script that contains a key), that goes to one specific API call to do one specific thing, without worrying about granting access to allow doing anything else in the system that you might not want to allow.
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 +===== Developer Documentation for Remote API =====
 +See [[developers/remote_api/start]]
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