Jeff Abrahamson on Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:40:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] how to transact credit cards and PayPal on a web site?


On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:51:07PM -0500, Pete Foley wrote:
> Anyway, PayPal is easy, you just need to either redirect the user to
> PayPal with some query string params, or you could just do an http
> post to them.  They support both.  The downside is that the user can
> then change the price in the URL or the form, so you need to save
> the total on your end too and not rely 100% on PayPal.  Also, their
> system is not really complete.  For example, they let you redirect
> to a URL after the transaction is done.  But, it goes to that URL if
> the sale passed OR failed (say the user canceled the order).  So
> there is no way to know what really went on at PayPal.  I emailed
> them about this, and they said that they were making an API, but I
> have not heard anything new since then.

They currently allow for two URL's, one for success, one for cancel. I
don't know where tried and failed anyway falls.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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