Minivend Credit Processing

["Jeff" <brage@phear.cyberhighway.net>]

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	Hey everyone *ATTENTION MIKEH :)*, I am looking into writing a
general credit card processing system into minivend which will basically
allow you to use any credit card processing system such as Authorize.net, and
the upcoming WebLinkAPI (which allows you to have a merchant account and 
credit processing set up in a matter of days rather than weeks!). I don't 
really know the ins and outs of the CyberCash-minivend interface, and there
doesn't seem to be any documentation on it. 

	Authorize.net (and possibly WebLinkAPI) use a form posted to a ssl web
server to accept credit transactions. normally you would just have a form which
links to the website, but this is not an elegant or proper way to do things and
with the design of the minivend order processing system, it is not an easy 
thing to do without cheating :) I wish to have minivend use my perl subroutine 
to process the credit data just like cybercash. 

	So far, I have gotten the Net::SSLeay module which allows me to post 
data to a SSL web server and read back the response in perl. I have implemented 
a simple script which submits the credit card data to authorize.net and checks 
the response to make sure the credit card is valid , etc. (I can also read back 
the AVS number, etc from the web-server)

Would someone PLEASE help me with this? I can do it myself, but I mainly
just want the minivend veterans out there to give me ideas on how to implement 
a credit card processing scheme properly. 

WE CAN NOT LIMIT OURSELVES TO A SINGLE TRANSACTION PROVIDER! :)
(and using SSLeay is just as secure and easy to use as the CyberCash System!)

thanks alot, and have a great day...

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Jeff Nappi 
brage@cyberhighway.net http://phear.cyberhighway.net
Cyberhighway Internet Services Network Operations Center
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