On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 05:37:44PM +0000, Oliver Jeeves wrote:
> I don't think this method is the best.

Probably not.  There are a lot of ways to accomplish this.  This was just off
the top of my head.

> A better solution, is to post to a script that displays a 'please wait'
> message, and uses a meta refresh to re-direct to a page that actually
> POSTs to the merchant site, meaning that while the users wait for your
> script to get a reply from the merchant, they are looking at the 'please
> wait' page.
> 
> The difficulty with this, is passing the credit card details from one
> script to another, and will require storing them somewhere temporarily.
> The benefit is that it doesn't require javascript, or the page to
> constantly reload.

The downside to this method however is the response the client gets to their
credit card submission is from the merchant, and not you, the service
provider.

-- 
jcap

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