Re: FN-FORUM: credit card payments without pages hosted on providers servers

date posted 2nd October 2006 16:43

[EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
> I have been assured by our (usually very compitant) head techy that they can 'manipulate web pages invisibly' from within the software using HTTP ports. As I understand it (and I dont - really) they'll be opening a connection to the page which the server will see as a normal HTTP request and will respond in the normal way, but everything will be invisible to the user. He also tells me they have sure-fire ways of encrypting the data being autocompleted as it transfers from the software to the hidden page and that they can manipulate the forms and so on in the same way a user would, including submits and so on. I have confidence they can do it if he says so, its just finding a company that'll let us!
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I don't know the exact details here, but I have to say that this route
sounds complicated, error-prone and difficult to test, compared to using
a simple API that most payment processors already provide and that is
designed for exactly this purpose.

Dave