Jim, If you're looking for an example, you can find one here: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/LinuxMag/col39.html And there's an earlier variation on the same theme here: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col20.html
These articles (by Randal Schwartz) both use the common technique described above of forking a child process to do the work and giving the user a "Please Wait" page with a meta-refresh tag. As for how to talk to the credit card processor, they nearly all supply a library to do this for you, and most can be used with a common API provided by Business::OnlinePayment. - Perrin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Mason-users mailing list Mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mason-users