On Tue, 1 May 2001, Tom Beidler wrote:

> I'm wondering if anyone has experience using CURL and could advise if it's
> the best direction for creating a SSL to a payment processing service.
>
> I'm trying to connect an existing PHP form to a payment processing service
> called Authorize.net. Using there direct response method requires a Secure
> Socket which a thought meant to send from a secure form to their secure
> script which didn't work. Here's what I got from their tech support.
>
> "The problem is that you can't send an HTML form POST when using Direct
> Response. You must write a script that creates an SSL connection directly
> with our server (port 443) and send the information to us through that
> connection. I do not know if this is possible through PHP but usually this
> is done with PERL, CGI, or ColdFusion. Please refer to the Developer's guide
> for more information:
>
> https://secure.authorize.net/docs
>
> Thank you for contacting our customer service group."
>
> I found some info about CURL, http://curl.haxx.se/, and it seems like it
> might do the trick. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this a can
> confirm that this is the best approach or give me some other direction.

No, cURL & PHP is perfect for your needs. Just compile PHP with cURL
support, and your off and running (documentation for the interface is
available at http://www.php.net/manual/ref.curl.php and you can
supplement that with the C API manual without much trouble).

-Sterling

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