I was thinking about Phillip's approach, actually, but the technical details
in his
ACS system are all in Tcl for AOLServer. Also, I'm not really excited
about the liability
involved in storing the credit card number in my database.
I decided to jump in and start hacking the CyberCash perl libraries and they
are full of
junk. They don't use "use strict" and when I put it in all of them, it blew
up. They don't
use scoping in any kind of consistent way and seem to have fundamental
issues
with perl syntax (They used $#Foo to find the size of %Foo - can you do
that? I didn't think
so, and the interpreter didn't seem to either - wanted me to declare
@Foo...)
On a completely unrelated note, my picture is actually in "P&A's Guide to
Web Publishing".
I'm in the section about the dating game. I'm the model they used (not the
girl... ;) the guy
in the suit.
Thanks for the input,
RYAN
-----Original Message-----
From: Yann Ramin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2000 6:06 PM
To: Ryan Adams
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CyberCash and mod_perl Experiences
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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