I. With signature pad

Owned by Andy Erd
Last updated: Oct 10, 2023

If you want to use webSignatureOffice with one of our StepOver signature pads, you have to install the Pad Connector once.

The Pad Connector is a local Java application that communicates with the signature pads via USB HID libraries using JNA and thus controls the interaction between webSignatureOffice and the signature pad.

This application has to be installed once. When using a StepOver signature pad for the first time, webSignatureOffice provides a download link of the Pad Connector.



The communication between browser and Pad Connector is done by Secure Web Sockets (wss). The SSL certificate and keystore are located in the installation directory and are used to overcome the mixed content barrier. The certificate has no security relevance because the traffic does not leave the local host. The certificate is issued to a host with a localhost DNS entry (signsocket.stepover.com). The Pad Connector only allows connections from the localhost.

It must be ensured that a connection to wss://signsocket.stepover.com:57357/signsocket/ or https://signsocket.stepover.com:57357 (call in browser) can be established.