From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 15 10:47:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E0237B402 for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:47:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01101217DF for ; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:47:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1FIl6C76810; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:47:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:47:06 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200202151847.g1FIl6C76810@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Payflo on FreeBSD? Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <200202141926.OAA82202@manor.msen.com> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1013797949 78057 216.194.193.106 (15 Feb 2002 18:32:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "MRW" == Michael R Wayne writes: MRW> Is anyone using Verisign's Payflo with FreeBSD? They have both a MRW> BSDi and a Linux version but seemed disinclined to do a native MRW> FreeBSD port. The bugger-heads at VeriSign discontinued the FreeBSD version for some unknown reason. The perl-native API was broken because they built with a threaded perl, and FreeBSD stock perl is not threaded. Brilliant release engineering, if you ask me. I guess after I pointed that out, they pulled it rather than fixing it. I call them every so often and ask that they release it again but they tend to ignore me. Anyhow, the pfpro command line interface works well, and their perl module can use that instead of the native library calls, if you patch the PFPRO.pm module properly. I can provide those patches if you need. I assume that the linux pfpro binary will run fine with FreeBSD's Linuxalator. Luckily I still have my (patched) freebsd version of the software. I doubt that I can share the whole thing, though, as it is under their copyright. The software works well and is pretty easy to use, but their tech support is way disorganized. If you're lucky to get a response, it is typical closed-source mentality. There is no pride in making bug-free software there, from what I see. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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