shopping cart & credit card

[cwdlmdd]

Can some one tell me if it is posable to put a shopping cart and except credit cards on a web sit without using server side software?

[Spookster]

Yes but I woudn't.

1. Shopping carts are more reliable and easier to implement server-side.

2. Many potential security risks by doing everything clientside.

3. Unless you plan to use some third party service to handle the credit card validation then you cannot validate the credit cards.

4. Information would have to be emailed via the users email software on their computer. Not very secure.

[MotherNatrsSon]

I use perl scripts to send my ordering info to my credit card gateway. It depends on the gateway you choose. Some allow you to just post info from an order form via a secure link. The only thing the scripts are for is encoding for an "extra" level of security.


MNS