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Security Concerns with RESTlets
Let's get the positive things out of the way first. RESTlets are great from the point of view of they're a web standard. Yay!
Now for the bad news.
RESTlets require a full set of NetSuite credentials to be forwarded to NetSuite in plain text with every request. "But HTTPS!" I hear the masses cry; that's all well and good until you consider the need to store those credentials somewhere (again, in plain text) to be sent with each of those requests. :h_a_w:
I'm not altogether comfortable with putting a full set of NetSuite login credentials into a database, or flat file, or some other means of storage that has to be accessible (by necessity) by my applications that I want to integrate using REST.
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