Abigail and Scottj are right. Don't even consider credit card transactions unless you have SSL, and if you don't have enough saavy to setup a local test server, to test your methods, wait until you do.

In the meantime, you could do something like make a store on your site, but have the payments handled by a third party, which will credit you the amount. That takes the worry off of you, because you never see the cc info. Ebay Sellers work that way. I can't comment on Ebay's Security, but at least it won't be you getting sued. Ebay sellers can have a "homepage store" in addition to what is offered on Ebay, and Ebay will handle the sales for you through their PayPal operation. If you don't like Paypal, there are other similar operations...search for them and compare the rates they charge for handling your cc transactions.

In reply to Re: Passing a username/password from HTML to a Perl script by zentara
in thread Passing a username/password from HTML to a Perl script by mwhiting

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