The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
modid: Business::PayPal
DSLIP: bdpOp
description: Interface to PayPal
userid: MOCK (mock)
chapterid: 15 (World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI)
communities:
similar:
Business::OnlinePayment
rationale:
PayPal works a bit differently than standard credit card
transactions. Instead of contacting the payment server and verifying
that a credit card can be charged, PayPal users are forwarded to the
PayPal site (www.paypal.com) and then sent back to the site from
which they came. Verification that payment occured is posted back to
a special Instant Payment Notification URL separately by the PayPal
server (www.paypal.com).
Now that the background is out of the way, my module allows one to
build PayPal buttons that contain an indentifier (a session) which
is passed back to one's site when the purchaser returns so that
their session can be resumed. It also handles the validation of the
Instant Payment Notification in a secure manner (even checking if
the ssl certificate returned by www.paypal.com is correct). This
allows one to build CGI payment forms with PayPal buttons to sell
things such as software, or in my case, conference registrations and
instantly determine if the customer has payed or not, and thus give
imediate feedback to the customer.
I believe that Business::PayPal is the best namespace choice. While
the module does do online payment, it doesn't really have any of the
same fundamental structures as a typical credit card payment module
has, so it doesn't really fit under the Business::OnlinePayment
hierarchy. To my knowledge, there are no other modules for handling
PayPal transactions currently in CPAN.
enteredby: MOCK (mock)
enteredon: Tue Mar 26 17:55:22 2002 GMT
The resulting entry would be:
Business::
::PayPal bdpOp Interface to PayPal MOCK
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