RE: CyberCash and how Minivend is screwed up

["Cameron B. Prince" <cameron@ans-2.ala-net.com>]

Great Patrick,

You are tha man!

I appreciate your help this morning. I got MiniVend working with CyberCash 
after following your instructions. However, MiniVend still fails to verify 
the credit cards. I tracked this to a problem with the MCK perl modules. 
While editing the perl script, I found where is calls those binaries 
(encrypt & decrypt) so I decided to check permissions on those. The 
permissions were right so I ran them and got an error from the shell. 
(unable to execute binary file) I thought this may be some kind of special 
permissions deal on these RaQ so I could only execute cgi and shell 
scripts. I had the same problem extracting the CyberCash MCK originally. I 
had to FTP it to another server, extract, tar and FTP it back. I e-mailed 
support and got a reply from the admins. They told me they couldn't even 
run the encrypt/decrypt as root. Well, after much communication with 
CyberCash and the ISP, we determined that it is caused by the MIPS 
processors used in the Cobalt RaQ servers. The code for the encrypt/decrypt 
was compiled for i386 processors only and they have no version compatible 
with MIPS.

So I called Dell up and ordered us a rack mount PIII 500MHz system with 
RAID3 and Dual NICs. I asked for RedHat v6.0 with Apache SSL to be 
installed. It cost them quiet a bit, but it's a MAJOR upgrade from running 
on the Cobalts. We were leary of their performance anyway.

When I get the new box, I will install MiniVend and CyberCash and try 
again. I'll keep your note handy because it sounds like I'll need it.

Thanks for your help,

Cameron B. Prince

-----Original Message-----
From:	Patrick Schoonveld [SMTP:pschoonveld@venux.net]
Sent:	Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:16 PM
To:	minivend-users@minivend.com
Subject:	CyberCash and how Minivend is screwed up

******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld 
<pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******

Well, I have made several postings relating my frustrations with
CyberCash and minivend.

All that was happening was that minivend was finding a blank emptiness
instead of a credit card number and sending that to cybercash. Well, I
dug in and out of Order.pm to find the number never made it there. I dug
in and out of the minivend executable in the bin directory and found
that it was disappearing before it got sent to cyber_charge() (the
function that executes a CyberCash charge). I tried turning off the
CreditCardAuto in the catalog.cfg to turn off the encryption. This only
stopped the ValidateCC from making sure it was a valid card. Needless to
say, I ended up commenting out the encrypt_standard_cc function in the
minivend executable and its works great.

I just wonder how anyone else got cybercash running under 3.14.

And I wonder why the heck no one ever responds to serious requests like
this in the mailing list.
Ahhh... freeware.
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