[ic] Defunct CyberCash payment module
Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
racke at linuxia.de
Fri Mar 13 20:11:06 UTC 2009
Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Jon Jensen (jon at endpoint.com):
>> Folks,
>>
>> Years ago Verisign acquired CyberCash and switched CyberCash customers
>> over to Payflow Pro.
>>
>> In the meantime, PayPal acquired the Payflow Pro business from Verisign,
>> and PayPal set a deadline in 2010 to stop supporting the old Payflow Pro
>> payment gateway interface.
>>
>> We have a client who just switched from that old Payflow Pro module
>> (Signio, which required a proprietary binary library) to PayPal's pure
>> HTTP module. We'll soon be committing that new module, which is based on
>> initial code from Tom Tucker. (Thanks, Tom!)
>>
>> In the meantime, is there any reason we shouldn't remove the ancient
>> Vend::Payment::CyberCash module? I can't think of any and will remove it
>> in the near future if nobody speaks up with reason not to.
>>
>
> Sadly, it is still in use.
>
I converted my Cybercash customer last year to Payflow and I'm glad that
there is finally a HTTP alternative.
Using proprietrary binary libraries on AMD64 server isn't that appealing :-).
Regards
Racke
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