What kind of connection is used between merchants (publishers) and Clickshare (e.g. requesting/ authenticating a token)?
The Clickshare Web Server at each Clickshare Service Provider (publisher or billing entity ) maintains a persistant connection to the Clickshare Authentication Service. Billing entities request authentication tokens for their valid users; publishers ask that these be validated. The protocol running over this connection is our own design, as lightweight as possible. The protocol is datagram-based, with reliable-delivery provisions built-in. The “Clickshare Authentication Service” consists of a set of machines, operated by Clickshare Corp, that offer Clickshare Authentication. If a Web Server’s connection to one such server is broken due to server error, bad network, etc, it is possible to reconnect to another authentication server on the fly.
