I haven't dealt with CyerCash before, but have some ideas which I read from a
somewhat useful book I got for free (Phillip and Alex's Guide to Web
Publishing).
CyberCash is not reliable. Perfectly valid credit cards fail auth at times,
and the service has a tendancy to crap out.
What the book suggested to do was to have a backend which goes and queries
new orders every x minutes and tries to auth them. They are attempted three
times, and after that rejected (and credit card numbers yanked from your DB,
replaced with a CyberCash reference). That way what the user sees is a
perfectly working system, not knowing that things are dead behind that.
My $0.01
Yann
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000, you (Ryan Adams) might of written:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to integrate CyberCash with a shopping system that we've
> developed in-house using mod_perl almost exclusively. I haven't been
> particularly impressed with the way it installs. We're on a Linux machine
> and it has a very NT-centric design, in my opinion.
>
> I have been able to get test scripts to run from the command-line and
> through
> basic mod_cgi execution, but I can't get consistent results when executing
> them via mod_perl ContentHandlers. In looking through their library files,
> they are doing some IPC::Open2 calls to executables and some other pretty
> ugly
> stuff that may or may not be causing the problems.
>
> Does anyone have experience doing this? What approach did you take? Any
> good
> documentation? I've read all the CyberCash stuff, but it hasn't given me
> the
> kind of answers I wanted.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Ryan
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