> Limited mentality... I'm sure you're doing your best though. Insults such as > this are completely uncalled for and prove nothing other than your limited > ability to communicate without attacking.
I couldn't have said it better; about you that is. We have tried to calmly answer your sincere question with as much tact as possible. Providing remedies to the issue you mentioned and trying to help you understand why you are mistaken. However, when you didn't like the answer, you started bashing us. By the way, I do remember where I came from. I do remember my times as a fledgling neophyte. I watched, researched, and learned. I also made lots of mistakes, and learned from them. Whenever I came across, or come across today or tomorrow, anything I didn't completely understand, I asked intelligent questions (without ** SHOUTING **!!!). This has nothing to do with sitting high in a glass tower and laughing at the poor scrambling novices. This is about telling you that you have the wrong concept in your head. You seem to mistake constructive criticism with attacking and petty name calling, and a secure solution with a novice-proof solution. Neither of which hardly ever go hand in hand. > YES! The default sci with, and I repeat, NO EXTRAS! Guns are pretty useless without extras. However, when you add the correct extras - bullets - they become marvelous ways to protect yourself. However, even with the correct extras, guns still have a major security flaw. Namely, the gun owner. Unless the owner is skilled, the gun is still very dangerous to it's owner as it gives a false sense of security. The SCI is in the Developer's Section for a reason. It should only be utilized by developers. Do you see the connection? Developers go into the Developer's Section. A novice webmaster is not the same as a competent developer. Just like a novice doctor is not the same as a competent surgeon. The SCI is not meant to be used without extras if the intended use is instant gratification commerce. A novice webmaster can copy the "default" SCI and then manually verify payment from the SCI notification email. After completing payment, their user sees a 'Thank you' page with instructions to wait for delivery of the product they paid for. Any novice webmaster who puts the link to their product in the SCI form is the same as a novice shopkeeper who puts the small, high-value merchandise outside the store (with no extra forms of security) and waits for people to come inside to pay for it. It is not the building architect's fault that the shopkeeper is getting robbed. Again, I must point out a vital fact to you. In the "default" SCI, both NOPAYMENT_URL and PAYMENT_URL point to the same page. It is the same page that is holding the SCI form in the first place. If you cannot grasp the concept that NOPAYMENT_URL and PAYMENT_URL should point to a 'thank you' page, and are unwilling to do as "You are encouraged [and] read the complete specification to learn about the other features the e-gold shopping cart offers", then you should not play around with fire, because you will get burned. It is not the architect's fault, or the door's fault, if an inexperienced house-owner has his possessions stolen because he did not lock the reinforced, multiple dead-bolt front door that the architect designed. "Reinforced, dead-bolted doors have a ** HUGH ** security flaw!!!" > p.s. It does now seem that there is quite a bit of DISCUSSION going on now > on this very topic. It's nice to see that my point has gotten across to > some... If your point is that you don't know what you're talking about, then yes - it has gotten across. Viking Coder ____________ http://www.two-cents-worth.com/?VikingCoder --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.e-gold.com/stats.html lets you observe the e-gold system's activity now!
