Re: authorize.net hex coded variables

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 45867
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texte = Terry,Have you figured out a way around this yet? I can't believe A/N is going to put 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 Davis Webmaster / Interactive Media Specialist Gray Loon Marketing Group, Inc. http://www.grayloon.com 204 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables OOPS (Terry Wilson 2002)
  2. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Terry Wilson 2002)
  3. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Gary Krockover 2002)
  4. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Terry Wilson 2002)
  5. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Clint Davis 2002)
  6. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Gary Krockover 2002)
  7. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Ejaz Syed 2002)
  8. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (John Peacock 2002)
  9. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Clint Davis 2002)
  10. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Terry Wilson 2002)
  11. Re: authorize.net hex coded variables (Gary Krockover 2002)
  12. authorize.net hex coded variables (Terry Wilson 2002)
Terry,Have you figured out a way around this yet? I can't believe A/N is going to put 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 Davis Webmaster / Interactive Media Specialist Gray Loon Marketing Group, Inc. http://www.grayloon.com 204 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/ Clint Davis

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