[BLUG] accepting credit card #s from a web form

[Matt Standish]

I am going to second this thought.  This is one headache that is
better outsources.

On 2/25/07, David Ernst <david.ernst_at_davidernst.net> wrote:
> Not a true answer to your question, but on the subject:
>
> I recommend that you at least consider outsourcing this.  Paypal and
> many others make it very easy to accept credit cards over the web, you
> don't need your own merchant account, their rates are competitive,
> they focus on security so they ought to be better at it than us
> average hackers, and if nothing else, if they blow it, they get sued
> for mishandling the credit card numbers instead of you.  For these
> reasons, I've never done it myself, I've always outsourced it.
>
> Of course, there are many reasons that you might not want to do that,
> and if so, this message doesn't really apply... if so, I respectfully
> request that you respectfull ignore it.  :)
>
> Best of luck,
>
> David
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:46:18PM -0500, Joe Auty wrote:
> >Hey Guys,
> >
> >Any suggestions on some decently secure ways to do this? Seems like
> >one hurdle is in the web server having to write to a file/database/
> >email where the number will be saved, at least temporarily, so it
> >seems like a bit of a challenge to make a sort of secure bridge here...
> >
> >
> >Just thought I'd see if you guys have any creative ideas? Just
> >mulling over some ideas myself...
> >
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> >-----------
> >Joe Auty
> >NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians
> >http://www.netmusician.org
> >joe_at_netmusician.org
> >
> >
>
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