[ic] Payment module problems

[Jamie Neil]

Daniel Browning wrote:
> * Jamie Neil <jamie at versado.net> [2005-06-17 02:36]:
> 
>>We've recently moved a fairly busy catalog to a new dedicated server, 
>>and we've started to see payment module errors (resulting in duplicate 
>>charges) several times a day.
>>
>>New server is running IC 5.2 on Debian 3.1 (Sarge) - (local) perl 5.8.7, 
>>apache 2.0.54 (no mod_perl) and a 2.6 SMP kernel on a single Xeon 
>>processor (Hyperthreaded).
>>
>>Each time the error occurs, the debug logging that's been set up shows a 
>>"500 read error" from LWP, so IC thinks the payment has failed when in 
>>fact it has gone through sucessfully.
> 
> Mike has added a "use_wget" option recently to work around this very problem. 

Thanks - nice to know that this is a know problems :)

Neither setting PERL_SIGNALS to unsafe nor running in RPC mode have 
fixed this problem, so I'll have a go at patching my Payment code.

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