smart card extension

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Hello Dave,

In general, you can't interact directly with items external to the browser unless they provide some kind of RESTful API that you can communicate with using appAPI.request.

It may also be possible to communicate at the sockets level using the socket.io library.

I suggest you explore these options and see what is possible with the smart card reader you are using.

Hi Shlomo,

Thanks for the reply. I was looking at http://www.forge.mil/Resources-Firefo... which has done something similar to what I would like to do. Do you know of anyone who has done smart card io from the browser? I'll take a look at the socket.io doc in any case. Thanks again.

Hello Dave,

I am not aware of any extension used to communicate with a Smart Card, but that's the beauty of being a pioneer :-) Good luck!