[ic] handling xml post data

[Lyn St George]

On Thursday 11 August 2011 14:56:53 Dan Bergan wrote:
> I am looking into a hosted payment form (to get my site out of PCI
> scope), and it uses an xml POST to return data to my site. It is a
> POST (not PUT), but there are no name-value pairs -- just the XML
> data.  The content type is text/xml.  It actually sounds just like
> this old post:
> 
> http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2002-September/026209
> .html
> 
> Mike responded that it wasn't possible, but that was from back in the
> IC 4.8 and 4.9 days, so is there a way to handle this type of data
> with IC?
> 
> Thanks -
> Dan

You wouldn't handle it directly with IC, but there are several payment systems 
that work like this, ie you go to some PSP's site and then wait for them to 
respond with something. Googlecheckout is one example - they send XML back at 
arbitrary times after the customer has paid (a number of posts with intervals 
of several minutes usually) and so the GCO module treats these as totally 
separate POSTs and handles them accordingly. You could just poach that section 
of code from the GCO module (ie, the 'callback') and use that as the basis of 
your code to be invoked upon your PSP returning his XML to you. Or use the 
whole thing as the basis of a payment module to send customers over first and 
then handle the response. Worldpay, Paypal and Moneybookers don't use XML but 
otherwise follow a similar principle. 

-- 
Lyn St George