[FX.php List] Returning to cookie-less session from external server

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Ooops. Missed that.

Then I will store the PHPSSID in one of the slots that the vendor 
provides, and then re-create the URL with it upon return.

Great solution!

J

At 6:52 PM +0000 1/29/08, Steve Winter wrote:
>Hi Jonathan,
>
>Not entirely true... the previous session will still in fact exist, all you
>need to do is work out how to get to it... hence my random suggestion before
>about recording the sessionID in a place you have access to (if you can't
>pass it through the payment processing process)...
>
>Anyway, sounds like you have a solution...
>
>Cheers
>Steve
>
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>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Schwartz
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>Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Returning to cookie-less session from external
>server
>
>Of course!  That's it.
>
>You can't restart the same session you left with, but you an create a
>new session with the customer ID or other unique ID.
>
>DOH!
>
>As always...thanks, Steve.
>
>J
>
>At 6:05 PM +0000 1/29/08, Steve Winter wrote:
>>Hi Jonathan,
>>
>>That will depend largely on the credit card payment processor. For example
>>with WorldPay, whom I have used on a number of projects, and who provide an
>>excellent service, it's possible to pass parameters to them, which are then
>>returned in the 'callback' page (mypage.php in your example below).
>>
>>In the last solution I developed what I did was to pass the FMP recID as a
>>parameter into, and received back from WorldPay.
>>
>>Random thought as an alternative, if that's not a solution, do you have to
>>provide some sort of unique 'cart id' to the payment server...? and is this
>>information still available to you after processing. If so, what you could
>>do is to create a separate FMP table, which contains the cart ID and the
>>current PHP session ID. Just before you hand the client off to the payment
>>server, create a new record in that table. When they return from the
>payment
>>server, sue the cart ID to relocate the session ID...??
>>
>>Cheers
>>Steve
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org
>>[mailto:fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan
>Schwartz
>>Sent: 29 January 2008 16:51
>>To: FX.php Discussion List
>>Subject: [FX.php List] Returning to cookie-less session from external
>server
>>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>How to do successfully return from a third party server (credit card
>>payment) when using SID for a no cookies browser? Session is started
>>locally, then off to cc payment and then back.
>>
>>I do have the ability specify the returning page in the third party
>>set up.  It currently just has "mypage.php".   I'm not sure whether I
>>should try to add the SID.  And even if I could, I couldn't add if
>>/else.
>>
>>Or, can you simply restart the session with SID when arriving at the
>>return page?
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>>J
>>
>>
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