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Re: Secure website [message #183546 is a reply to message #183534] Wed, 30 October 2013 18:56 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/29/2013 11:02 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote:
> Hellop,
>
> I have an ordinary website (all PHP), it has no 'conscious'
> protections, just code that does a job. One page (not written yet
> because I don't know how), will advertise a product for sale.
>
> My concept is that a buyer goes to a paypal screen, does the
> necessary, when payment is verfified and paid, an email is
> automatically sent to the buyer with a download key. At the buyers
> dicretion, they go to the download page, enter the key and the
> software gets downloaded. Is this sort of thing a novice PHP'er could
> do.
>
> I'd like to be sort of semi-conversant before I contact paypal. Is the
> above feasible, is my ordinary website secure, is there a specific set
> of PHP'ish or other 'things to do'
> e.g.
> ... how to prevent more than one download, do I store the software
> package on my ISP's server, is it safe, since it has several exe files
> would they be in a zip file, how to assign a download key, let the
> whole process be automated?
>
> .. starter clues appreciated, thanks,
>
> Graham Hobbs
>

A couple of questions:

1. What happens if that "one download" is unsuccessful? Are you going
to make the buyer pay again?

2. What is to stop one person from buying your program, then sending it
off to all of his friends (or uploading it to another site)?

You can do it, but in addition to the other comments about PayPal - if
they have a system outage, it can take several hours (even after they
make it back up) for them to process the payment. It doesn't happen
often, but it does occur.

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