Connect connects to Protegrity Data Security Gateway by making REST API POST requests over HTTP. The Connect Protect and Unprotect functions use Protegrity resources to protect and unprotect data sent to Protegrity. You must configure the Protegrity Gateway server to receive and process REST requests before Connect can use the functions, The API end point implementation determines the specific protection methods. Some details needed to set up protection are:
- All REST API calls use the POST method.
- Data is always sent as part of HTTP message body.
- Data is always sent without any encoding change. The Protegrity server must return protected data with the same encoding as the data input.
- Connect does not pass data with empty or NULL values to the Protegrity server.