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Re: Secure website [message #183555 is a reply to message #183553] Thu, 31 October 2013 03:03 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/30/2013 7:15 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:56:12 -0400, Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net> wrote:
>
>> 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?
> - OF COURSE .. just a joke!
> - I would guess a failed download would be rare but if so, an email
> would ensue and |'d reply with an attachment - reasonable?

Less rare than you would think. And how would you check to see if the
download failed or not?

>>
>> 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)?
> - doesn't all software face that problem? .. is there a solution?
>>
>> 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.
> - my software has a small audience, I would expect this not to be a
> concern
>

Famous last words...

If your audience is so small, why do you worry about it?

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