[ic] handling xml post data

[Dan Bergan]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Lyn St George <lyn at zolotek.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 11 August 2011 14:56:53 Dan Bergan wrote:
> > I am looking into a hosted payment form (to get my site out of PCI
> > scope), and it uses an xml POST to return data to my site. It is a
> > POST (not PUT), but there are no name-value pairs -- just the XML
> > data.  The content type is text/xml.  It actually sounds just like
> > this old post:
> >
> > http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-September/026209
> > .html
> >
> > Mike responded that it wasn't possible, but that was from back in the
> > IC 4.8 and 4.9 days, so is there a way to handle this type of data
> > with IC?
> >
> > Thanks -
> > Dan
>
> You wouldn't handle it directly with IC, but there are several payment systems
> that work like this, ie you go to some PSP's site and then wait for them to
> respond with something. Googlecheckout is one example - they send XML back at
> arbitrary times after the customer has paid (a number of posts with intervals
> of several minutes usually) and so the GCO module treats these as totally
> separate POSTs and handles them accordingly. You could just poach that section
> of code from the GCO module (ie, the 'callback') and use that as the basis of
> your code to be invoked upon your PSP returning his XML to you. Or use the
> whole thing as the basis of a payment module to send customers over first and
> then handle the response. Worldpay, Paypal and Moneybookers don't use XML but
> otherwise follow a similar principle.
>

Thanks Lyn and Mark!  I think the patch and the google checkout
examples should get me moving forward again.

Dan Bergan