I was just recently implementing subscriptions (recurring payments) with Authorize.net
First off, you can't test them in Test Mode. Which seems to defeat the purpose of Test Mode, but whatever. I'll run a couple of $0.01 transactions on my card for testing. Authorize.net has a setup where you give them a URL to post all of the subsequent transaction information to. So you initially set up the subscription, make sure it is good, then every month they try running the card, then post back to your URL and tell you if it succeeded or not. Cool, not too difficult, right? Well, we tested it and the first 5 post backs we got generated HTTP 500 errors in IIS. Nothing logged on our side. Well, crap. So we we pull all the real code and decide to just do logging code, log whatever they send us. Obviously we misunderstood their API docs and are binding to something incorrectly. Then...nothing. Authorize.net stops doing post backs to us. We submit more test subscriptions and get...nothing. Get ahold of them to find out what's up and they research the matter. They come back and tell us that the problem is that they don't support doing post backs to https. They don't support sending financial information over ssl. Really. And those 5 post backs they did to our https address that generated the 500 error code? No clue. According to them, it should never have worked even that much. And, oh yeah, maybe they shouldn't let us submit a url that they claim they can't do a post to. They have not a single clue as to why it tried 5 times then stopped trying. Fuckin brilliant On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Michael Grant<[email protected]> wrote: > > The only reason I can come up with is that the web department in question is > full of donkeys. No SSL is _so_ 1998. Seriously, whoever implemented a site > like that should be shot. Or at the very least maimed. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300039 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
