Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 00:19:13 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Vivek Khera" <khera@kcilink.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: credit card processing? Message-ID: <002a01c13c24$640c4720$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15263.48082.618606.646319@onceler.kciLink.com>
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We use ICVerify. Now, before you ask "how the hell do you do that since ICVerify has no FreeBSD version" let me explain how it works. Our billing system at the ISP is Billmax (http://www.billmax.com) which runs on FreeBSD. Every night, it creates a batch file that has all the card numbers in a specific format, and writes that to a directory, then starts scanning the directory for a response file. This directory is on a Samba share. A DOS workstation running the Microsoft Networking TCP/IP for DOS requestor is logged in and has a drive letter mapped to that share. The ICVerify software runs on that DOS system and once every 30 seconds it scans that drive letter looking for the batch file. As soon as it shows up ICVerify runs the processing and returns auth codes in a different file that it writes to this directory. That response file is then picked up by the process running the billing system and is used to post the payments. Now, this process may seem Rube Goldbergish but I can manually do single cards from the FreeBSD system and the entire transaction is completed in less than a minute. In fact ICVerify was designed originally to be used by a distributed system of PC's running card validation software. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Vivek Khera >Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 12:48 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: credit card processing? > > >We have been using VeriSign for processing credit card transactions >for one of our services. Recently, they quietly discontinued support >for FreeBSD versions of their software, and don't seem to really care >that they're screwing their current customers. > >Does anyone know of a credit card processing service/software that >will work with FreeBSD, preferably with a Perl API? The only one I >found in the ports was for a UK based service, and it is not clear >that they operate outside the UK. > >Thanks for any info. > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. >Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 >AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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