Re: authorize.net hex coded variables
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45804
interpreted = N
texte = I'm not sure that I understand what you fix is Terry?Also, are your pages passing the referring url? Nobody has gotten back to me on this, so I don't know if the problem is the hexcoded crap or the not passing of the referring URL.We don't have 4.5 on the box that has the clients using A/N so the TCPConnect is not an option for us at this point. Actually, I think we have 2 options: find a quick and reliable fix for the A/N mess (and fast) or move to something else.We're looking at Verisign's Payflow Plus. Who all has horror stories about it?GK> If you are one of the ones wrestling with Authorize.net's changed incoming > variables as of last Monday (11/18), I have a definitive answer. Last night > I was back and forth with one of their techs, and am proud to say I figured > it out for them after several tests and a dive into the WebCat docs on > [UnURL]. Turns out, problem is that they are passing lowercased hexcodes, > not uppercased ones. WebCat automatically converts uppercased hexcodes, > which is why we never had a problem before. Now, with whatever they did > last week, hexcodes with letters in them are not getting converted. That's > why spaces are fine (%20), but periods are not (%2e). The tech guy > (Patrick) told me: > > >I think you're right. We have logged this in our system and our engineers > >will soon be looking at it. As there are quite a few open issues > >currently, you should probably include the modifier in your script. This > >is probably affecting all case sensitive scripting languages so we > >appreciate you pointing this out to us. This will most likely be fixed > >around the first of the year as we cannot make any changes to our code > >until the end of the Holiday shopping season. > > I figured that was a fair trade; after all, it took me a lot of persistence > to finally break through some dispatcher who didn't understand the problem > and get to someone who knew what I was talking about. And now at least they > agree there's a problem worth fixing. > > So my question is this. Using WebCat 3, how can I best convert these > hexcodes? [UnURL] only works on uppercase in version 3, and I am not ready > to see if 4.5 will work on my setup (4.0 did not), as I plan to upgrade the > server before too long and will do it then. I don't want to uppercase > everything. I can write my own variables to a db and retrieve them from > there (and have done that for the mission critical variables), but > converting the incoming variables is cleaner and it would take care of the > Authnet originated variables. > > Terry Wilson > > Attitude is the only difference between an ordeal and an adventure. > _____________________________________________________________________ > (If I don't write back right away, I'm just buried in email. > Feel free to nudge me.) ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I'm not sure that I understand what you fix is Terry?Also, are your pages passing the referring url? Nobody has gotten back to me on this, so I don't know if the problem is the hexcoded crap or the not passing of the referring URL.We don't have 4.5 on the box that has the clients using A/N so the TCPConnect is not an option for us at this point. Actually, I think we have 2 options: find a quick and reliable fix for the A/N mess (and fast) or move to something else.We're looking at Verisign's Payflow Plus. Who all has horror stories about it?GK> If you are one of the ones wrestling with Authorize.net's changed incoming > variables as of last Monday (11/18), I have a definitive answer. Last night > I was back and forth with one of their techs, and am proud to say I figured > it out for them after several tests and a dive into the WebCat docs on > [unurl]. Turns out, problem is that they are passing lowercased hexcodes, > not uppercased ones. WebCat automatically converts uppercased hexcodes, > which is why we never had a problem before. Now, with whatever they did > last week, hexcodes with letters in them are not getting converted. That's > why spaces are fine (%20), but periods are not (%2e). The tech guy > (Patrick) told me: > > >I think you're right. We have logged this in our system and our engineers > >will soon be looking at it. As there are quite a few open issues > >currently, you should probably include the modifier in your script. This > >is probably affecting all case sensitive scripting languages so we > >appreciate you pointing this out to us. This will most likely be fixed > >around the first of the year as we cannot make any changes to our code > >until the end of the Holiday shopping season. > > I figured that was a fair trade; after all, it took me a lot of persistence > to finally break through some dispatcher who didn't understand the problem > and get to someone who knew what I was talking about. And now at least they > agree there's a problem worth fixing. > > So my question is this. Using WebCat 3, how can I best convert these > hexcodes? [unurl] only works on uppercase in version 3, and I am not ready > to see if 4.5 will work on my setup (4.0 did not), as I plan to upgrade the > server before too long and will do it then. I don't want to uppercase > everything. I can write my own variables to a db and retrieve them from > there (and have done that for the mission critical variables), but > converting the incoming variables is cleaner and it would take care of the > Authnet originated variables. > > Terry Wilson > > Attitude is the only difference between an ordeal and an adventure. > _____________________________________________________________________ > (If I don't write back right away, I'm just buried in email. > Feel free to nudge me.) ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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