Using the Read‑a‑Card web server

A web site or application in the browser can receive the information that Read‑a‑Card has read from a contactless card or tag, using the local web server functionality that runs on the client. This is enabled inside Read‑a‑Card on the Web Server tab.

The Read‑a‑Card built-in web server will then allow your web page, with the addition of some Javascript, to read card information from the Read‑a‑Card user’s web browser. The page can then send this information back to your server application. This allows end-users to submit online forms that are automatically populated with the relevant information from a presented card.

For an example of how to add this ability to your web site, see the Web page example This example code is available as a file called Card.htm installed with the Read-a-Card application, usually in C:/Program Files (x86)/Read-a-Card.).