HTTPS post??

Anon

I need to do an HTTPS post within a script which then receives a post containing variables. (This is for processing CCs). The only way so far that I have seen to do this is with CURL. Is there another way? Also how exactly will I handle the post back within the same script.

Thanks

Anon

Well first you'll need a server that supports SSL 128bit encoding, as this is the standard and is required by most credit card verification companies. And as for the handling in the script well it should be exactly as you would normaly handle it, the server should handle all the encoding and decoding of the encrypted data.

Anyways basicly you'd just tell your script to post the data to an https server (https is just an alias for the client machine telling it to use port 443 wich is the default for SSL, just as http is an alias telling it to use port 80, unless told otherwise of course).

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Anon

I need to be able to post and receive a post within a single page. eg

do some stuff....
POST data to processor
receive POST from processor
do some other stuff with data received from post.

All within the same scripted page.

Anon

Well then that page would have to be on an SSL enabled server.

Anon

And what is wrong with using CURL? Note, I'm trying to do the same thing, and
have yet to get CURL to compile with SSL support included. :-(

Anon

I think you're missing the point. It sounds to me like he wants the PHP server-side processing to POST and receive data from a secure server, not to have a secure form the user posts to a secure page. (I'm in search of exactly the same thing, fwiw.)

Anon

That's exactly what I am looking to do. I'll let you know if I find anything. Please inform me if you find anything as well.

Anon

Ohhh, ok, now I understand... sorry, we get so many confuzzled newbie messages in here sometimes it's hard to tell if it's just a newbie asking a question in a funny way or an experienced programmer asking a hard question like this. <grinz>

Anon

Please inform me if you find anything as well.

Will do; meanwhile you forgot to say why Curl wasn't an option for you--or
are you having the same problems I am in getting it to compile with SSL
support?

Anon

Erm, haven't worked with it yet really. That's why I was just asking if it was the only option, so I'd know if that's the next thing I need to learn. I'll hopefully start playing with it shortly. I'll let you know what I discover.

Anon

Don't know if you've solved this yet, but I had the same problem, theres a class called Snoopy, you can get it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/snoopy/

it handles http and https form submits along with all sorts of other client functions.
It uses CURL.

Hope it works for you,
Jim

Anon

Well,
I am very new to PHP.
How can I use Snoopy?

I included it? does anybody have a sample?

thanx.

Anon

i have the same need as the others in this thread, i have less than 60 days of php experiance, but years in IT. i have sucessfuly done http get and post and https get from php, but have not yet found a way to get https post to work, my target is also a financial institution and i have to do some iteration, ie more then just a single post with a single result, armed with the first result, i have to go back to the bank with one more post before the script ends.

whould love to hear from someone who has made this work.

rogair

The way I do it is with cURL with a command line exec. It's been working now for 14 months without trouble. You gotta install cURL but the rest is pretty straight forward.

Anon

Roger, this sounds great, and maybe exactly what I am looking for! Can you please post a sample of what you did?

Thanx

Anon

Here's an example of the code. I should post this somewhere. I keep getting requests for it, though it's a modified version of what I got elsewhere.

Remember you need to install cURL first. That's fairly OS dependant (even the *nix flavors are sometimes different). Do some web searches to gather, or post at phpbuilder, I don't remember where I got my instructions for the cURL install.)

// Begin CC processing
// initial variables to define or pass from your shopping cart
$curl = "pathtocURL";
$my_authnet_userid = "xxxxxx";
$total = "$grandtotal";
$cc_number = "$Card_Number";
$cc_exp = "$Exp_Date";
$invoiceno = "$id";
$billing_address = "$Billing_Address";
$billing_zip = "$Billing_Zip";
exec("curl -d 'x_Login=$my_authnet_userid&x_Amount=$total&x_Card_Num=$cc_number&x_Exp_Date=$cc_exp&x_ADC_URL=FALSE&x_ADC_Delim_Data=TRUE&x_Invoice_Num=$invoiceno&x_Version=3.0&x_Address=$billing_address&x_Zip=$billing_zip' https://secure.authorize.net/gateway/transact.dll", $authorize, $ret);
$auth_return = split("|", $authorize[0]);

// for debugging you can print the variables returned:
// comment out lines after testing.
// for ($idx = 0; $idx < 39; ++$idx) {
// $pos = $idx+1;

// echo "Code".$pos.": ".$auth_return[$idx]."<BR>";
// }

if($auth_return[0] == 1){

// this section passes these three variables to your processing form
// for order tracking purposes

  $auth_code = $auth_return[4];
  $avs_code = $auth_return[5];
  $trans_id = $auth_return[6];

} elseif($auth_return[0] == 2){

  echo "<b>Your order cannot be processed at this time, as your credit card was not accepted.</b><br>";

} elseif($auth_return[0] == 3){

  echo "<b>Your credit card can not be processed at this time.</b><br><br>";
echo "The reason for this error: $auth_return[3]<br><br>\n";
echo "Please click back on your browser and verify your information.<br>\n";

}
else {
echo "Auth_Return is not 1, 2 or 3\n";
}
// End CC Processing

There's a whole lot of code for database interaction, product calculations, and other stuff, but this is the part that handles the authorize.net transaction.

Anon

superb! thanks