I have been using version 3.2.0.4, it definately leaves something to be
desired. Insecure /tmp files, C-ish coding style, no good testing
facilities, it goes on. One thing to note about the perfectly valid
cards failing randomly: one time for a few months one time of credit
card would fail no matter what ( forgot which ), because they had
a broken gateway. Also, they don't seem to notify of outages or anything
of that nature.
Vivek Khera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) was saying:
> >>>>> "YR" == Yann Ramin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> YR> CyberCash is not reliable. Perfectly valid credit cards fail auth
> YR> at times, and the service has a tendancy to crap out. What the
> YR> book suggested to do was to have a backend which goes and queries
>
> This has never been my experience with cybercash. We were one of their
> first customers, and though things were hard to set up in those dark
> days, their latest incarnation of the software is quite trivial to
> install and use (once you figure out how to program it). It involves
> three Perl modules (pure perl, even) to be installed. Then you just
> "use" the appropriate one, and call the right function.
>
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