Using the POST method will prevent the credit card data from being included
in the url. I would still be careful about sending data like this via a
POST to a form handler on an entirely different site. It would be better if
there was some sort of secure socket to transfer the data through.
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"Tom Beidler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to modify and e-commerce site which originally sent an email
with
> the credit card info in an email. Now they would like to pass credit card
> numbers to a payment-processing service. For this particular service,
> Authorize.net, you would normally direct the form data to the
> payment-processing service. The page is currently setup to resubmit to
> itself and validate fields before anything else.
>
> I would like to keep that functionality but I'm wondering how to pass the
> values onto the payment-processing center after the validation. The flow
> would be, hit the submit button and send the data to the page to validate
> the fields and then send the info to Authorize.net. The form currently has
> about 15 fields to validate and only needs to pass 3 of them to the
> payment-processing center.
>
> I'm still relatively new to this and I'm thinking the only way to pass
> variables is through a submitted form or the url and I don't want to put
the
> credit card info in the url.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Tom
>
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> Tom Beidler
> Orbit Tech Services
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> 805.682.5833 (fax)
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