Re: CyberCash and how Minivend is screwed up

[Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>]

I was just sleepy and pissed... I am glad it is open source.

Also, Re: Bill@webteam
-When I turned CreditCardAuto Off, it wouldn't accept any cards at all.
Didn't even acknowledge the proper amount of data.

And to Tom Craig:
Most mailing lists berate you if you haven't exhausted everything. I
tried to pretend to be smart, but I must have used the wrong thing.
Well, I will try to be dumber next time :). 
"Duh. Uhm. CyberCash no work. Help me." grin...
I was just disappointed because before I choose open source products, I
check out their mailing lists and web message boards. If they have a
high number of messages, I will go with it because somebody on that list
knows something. Turns out, most of the people here know lots, but not
much about the backend (from the messages I've seen). Which is a Good
Thing. Considering that most people never should or need to look at the
source. So, lets start a minivend-devel mailling list for cyber-weenies
such as myself. Grin.

I ended up short circuiting the minivend executable. One of the first
things it does now is store the CC number in a variable, then reassigns
it into the CGI::values before it calls cyber_charge.

The interesting thing that I found was that when I commented out the
encryption in that executable, it would work, but only under certain
circumstances of click order with a minivend restart thrown in. It was
REALLY wacky. But it works, and I am happy. If I ever get it to work
quick and easy like Bill @ WebTeam, I will let everyone know.


Smith Colin-WCCS07 wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Smith Colin-WCCS07 <Colin_Smith@europe27.mot.com>     ******
> 
> Ah, but look at it this way... If it was a commercial closed source
> application with a similar problem, you'd still be getting bounced from
> support desk to support desk waiting for a fix. :)
> 
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Patrick Schoonveld [SMTP:pschoonveld@venux.net]
>         Sent:   Tuesday, July 20, 1999 9:16 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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