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by myspy 2332 days ago
We did that, with one technical user to share data between our backend and SAP, but got the news that it's not legal and must be licensed per user that's using our app. Even over http you can't access data in SAP without paying your fees accordingly.
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It is legal to do that. Its the question how tight your app was doing it? If you just send user actions and answers over HTTP back and forth using a technical user, that's like sharing the user. But if you have your own billing software (for example), and submit finished bills with a SOAP request (for example) to SAP, that is completely ok.
ehh if you have access throught http(hopefullly)s into a webbrowser and consume it with your eyes, can't i just puppeteer it ? heck event print screen and OCR ?