[ic] RE: PayPal working with IC (changed to pleeeaaase make a PayPal mod)?

[Julia Jacobs]

On 2/21/02 3:50 PM, "Jason Kohles" <jkohles@redhat.com> wrote:

> You can't do this because it would require that the customer give you
> their PayPal account name and password, which any sane person would
> refuse to do.

If a customer would give you their credit card number, why would they not
give you their PayPal account name and password if it is necessary to
complete the transaction and you put a disclaimer stating you do not store
their account info, it just passes directly to PayPal in a secure SSL form?
The fields in the PayPal form do not need to be stored in the userdb table,
they are just necessary to complete the transaction.
If the customer is uneasy about paying with PayPal, they can choose an
alternate payment method.  But to not include a PayPal mod because you feel
a customer would not want to put their PayPal account info on your secure
site, but would do this on PayPal's site does not seem logical, Captain.
Can you just make the mod and allow the makers of the Interchange apps to
decide wether or not they want to implement the PayPal functionality and
deal with its hairy consequences?
You could even put a disclaimer by the payment methods area saying "Red Hat
claims no responsibility for those of you who use the PayPal feature and can
not be held liable. . . . .etc."
SSL would encrypt the user info anyway so how could anyone get to it?  Maybe
you could set it so PayPal functionality can only be implemented if SSL is
turned on.

My 2¢
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