Re: authorize.net hex coded variables
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2002
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Terry,Have you figured out a way around this yet? I can't believe A/N is going toput this off until January!!!On 11/28/02 8:53 AM, Terry Wilson
wrote:> 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---------------------------------------------------------------------Clint DavisWebmaster / Interactive Media SpecialistGray Loon Marketing Group, Inc. http://www.grayloon.com204 Main Street | Evansville, IN 47708 | Phone:812-422-9999----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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Terry,Have you figured out a way around this yet? I can't believe A/N is going toput this off until January!!!On 11/28/02 8:53 AM, Terry Wilson wrote:> 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---------------------------------------------------------------------Clint DavisWebmaster / Interactive Media SpecialistGray Loon Marketing Group, Inc. http://www.grayloon.com204 Main Street | Evansville, IN 47708 | Phone:812-422-9999----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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