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I wonder why Target needed full connectivity between their public web servers and in-store POS devices?
by crazytony 13y ago
I wonder why Target needed full connectivity between their public web servers and in-store POS devices?
- acomjean 13y agoI was wondering the same thing. But its probably for an "is it in stock in a store near me", which might by tied into the inventory/ pos system.
- crazytony 13y agoyou're probably right though it astounds me that this relationship would be bidirectional eg: web servers can make requests to individual stores. Security implications aside if it was engineered that way it would make for highly variable response times and diminished reliability: not only would you have to make 50+ queries but those queries would have to be across a wan instead of being colocated.
- heywire 13y agoI can't imagine that anyone would design a system in such a way. It would be far more likely that transaction data would be uploaded to a central database which tracks store inventory.
- heywire 13y agoIf I had to wager a guess, I'd say remote access for support purposes. The "web site" very well could have been something like a Citrix or Juniper remote access web interface.