[Seaside] Posting to a Seaside app

Nevin Pratt nevin at smalltalkpro.com
Wed Aug 6 22:58:39 CEST 2003



Nevin Pratt wrote:

>
>
> Ned Konz wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 06:16 pm, Nevin Pratt wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> In short, payments via PayPal is demanding more of my/our time than
>>> we care to give it, plus it costs me more.  In contrast, payments
>>> on the site are quite automated now, thus demanding less of my
>>> time.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> But you can automate the PayPal process as well. They will do a HTTP 
>> POST to a URL of your choosing, and you follow that with another POST 
>> to a URL of their choosing to acknowledge.
>>
>>  
>>
>
> Yes, I know.  In fact, I've done that before, for non-Seaside apps.
>
> But, even doing this still leaves me with the *exact* same problem:
>
>   "How do I get the Seaside app to pick up the posted data?"
>
> And once that problem is solved, I really don't need PayPal in the mix 
> anyway, as I can just have the eBay auction post to my own Shopping 
> Cart for checkout.
>
> Nevin
>

Well, it looks like I've about got something that will work.  But to do 
it, I had to make the KomRequest (from Comanche) available to the 
BBSession (a subclass of WASession).

I'll (hopefully) slick it up tomorrow, then test it, then be using it by 
the end of the week.

Nevin

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Nevin Pratt
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