Well the new money spinner has just been thought up
and it involves charging people about £5 to
get access to some information.
So, I play round, come up with a simple script that does:
print "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"something.pdf\"\r\n";
print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: ba
Worldpay offer a thing they call "select" where you redirect to their
server and the customer does all the credit card stuff there. This
means you have to worry less about security - see it in action at
www.quietpc.com. They also have other ways to do it; you used to be
able to upload CGI script
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:28:04PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote:
> Worldpay offer a thing they call "select" where you redirect to their
> server and the customer does all the credit card stuff there.
Search for "merchant account" on google and you'll find hundreds, if
not thousands of companies th
On Sat, 18 May 2002, Steve Keay wrote:
> We also use datacash and it seems to work quite well - post the CC
> number, amount, etc., via https and they return "yes" or "no" with a
> transaction tracking number.
We use datacash, but I also get a lot of outage notifications from them
because somet
> Anyway, now I've got this far I need a company to take the
> money from the customer and do all that security stuff.
I've never actually used them, as the project got canned, but the last time
I looked into it, I ended up with www.worldpay.com
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 12:28:04PM +0100, Steve Keay wrote:
> We also use datacash and it seems to work quite well - post the CC
> number, amount, etc., via https and they return "yes" or "no" with a
> transaction tracking number.
A firm I used to work for (sadly "dust to dust, ashes to ashes, l
Thanks for all the feedback folks.
I'm erring towards worldpay because:
1) I don't have to host the https server and worry about
the security aspect. I can also customise the pages
through a web interface.
and
2) I don't have to have a Merchant ID which frankly just
seems a pain.
Dat
Nicholas Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We solved the problem (IIRC) by having a commit as we were about to initiate
> a chat with the Datacash server, and a second commit after we'd just
> completed the chat with Datacash, so that we would be able to spot any
> partial or late aborted finan
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 12:48:43PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> Without wishing to start an egregious flamewar, Java has done this for
> quite some time and might go some decent way to explaining why folks
> don't take perl seriously for "enterprise" type of work.
I believe our problems lay sol
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 11:50:48AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> However, we also used perl talking to Oracle. And we had this nasty revelation:
>
> BEWARE OF TRANSACTIONS
>
This is a really good description of the perils of two-phase commits,
i.e. the situation where rollbacks must be synchro
Leo Lapworth wrote:
> Anyway, now I've got this far I need a company to take the
> money from the customer and do all that security stuff.
>
> Does any one have recomendations of who I should use ?
Check out worldpay. They do any number of products, including ones that
will just pay into a reg
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