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tachyon
<p>Many of us who get paid to Perl have at least dabbled with e-commerce. If you have a specific or even general question why not ask it here? You don't have enough time to set up a new portal and write a fully blown e-commerce app, even if you could get a useful number of users. The only thing particularly specific to e-commerce (as opposed to general CGI stuff) is handling secure credit card tansactions and the like. All the rest is just vanilla CGI and database stuff.
<p>There are really only three parts to secure transactions:
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<li>Protecting the CC data in transit (use HTTPS with Apache and Open SSL) and securing your server to protect the back door.
<li>storing CC details securely. My advice is don't store the CC details. You cant hack CC details off a server if they are simply not there. Make the user re-enter CC details for every transaction (they will feel more secure about this anyway) Of course by all means remember all the other account details.
<li>Handing off to the 3rd party CC processor - they will supply the interface API spec and generally sample software in a variety of langs - and waiting on the response.
</ul>
<p>cheers
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