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Assorted Rants Tagged ‘Payments’, page 1:

How to consume an HTTP API

posted June 11, 2018 by "Goose" Hare

Quote:	“Programs are not the self-contained, self-reliant, self-sufficient things they once were.”
Another Quote:	“I highly recommend you log every HTTP request you send and every HTTP response you receive.”
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posted January 9, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Fortunately, there is a neat crypto-trick which makes this schema usable for Server-oriented games in general – and multi-player games in particular”
Another Quote:	“if you’re using TCP to communicate, you should log everything right before it goes into your send() call (and right after it comes out of your recv() call”
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posted January 3, 2017 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“With the Direct Processing, customer should trust us (the merchant) with their details”
Another Quote:	“On the other hand, most of PCI DSS requirements make perfect sense regardless of formal compliance”
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posted December 20, 2016 by "No Bugs" Hare

Quote:	“Chargeback monster will come from under the bed and will eat all your hard-earned money!”
Another Quote:	“it is trivial to develop a system with guaranteed zero chargeback rate – to achieve this, it is sufficient to decline each and every transaction at pre-filter stage”
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posted August 17, 2015 by "No Bugs" Hare

Abstract:	If you’re very proud of some feature – think twice if it will really work.
Quote:	“One thing nobody realised for a while is that the system with the least possible amount of chargebacks is the system which rejects all transactions outright”
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