Not to mention the fact that renewing a domain via manage.cgi
(http://manage.opensrs.net/) uses the reseller account that is setup in
the OpenSRS.conf - since the public manage interface is using a 'catch
all' user, we'd have to have money in that account to be able to renew
with - and by design, we don't ;)
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> At 6/14/01 8:05 PM, Jeremy Anthony Kinsey wrote:
>
> >Ok, using that psychology then, I suppose we would run out of money
> >whenever someone just registers a domain. However, we do not. Why?
>
> Because you've included some way to charge them for it in your local
> script. People can't register new domains through manage.opensrs.net.
>
>
> >Because we still have to approve of the registration before it goes
> >through. So it would make sense that a renewal could work the same way,
> >ie., the customer either renews, or adds years to their domain
> >(submitting a CC of course)
>
> Yes, that's my point. The customer needs to give you a credit card
> number, but manage.opensrs.org is not set up for accepting credit card
> numbers, displaying your renewal prices and policies, or any of the other
> things you need to do for renewals.
>
> So instead you unfortunately have to use a local script that does the
> custom processing such as collecting money, then sends the request to
> OpenSRS.
>
>
> >and then we can just approve of it, assuming
> >their CC/payment goes through. Again, this is the same thing we are
> >doing now when it comes to a new registration. So why should a renewal
> >be any different?
>
> It's not. It's the same. In both cases there's a local script you modify
> that collects credit card details, etc., and then sends the order to
> OpenSRS.
>
> Which script you should modify is debatable. As someone mentioned,
> renew.cgi is easier to get started with, but many people have apparently
> chosen to put the renewal functionality in manage.cgi because it presents
> a more unified interface to the customer -- they just log in to manage
> their domain and there's a renew link right there.
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
>
