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Site 24×7 and JSONPath Example

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We had an issue a couple of days ago where two points of failure caused some downtime and so I spent most of today revisiting all my monitors to give us as much warning as possible if one of our services fails. One particular API I set up lives on the as400 (iSeries) and operates...

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February 21, 2019

First Heroku App: Small API in PHP to Talk to .Net Core

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I’ve recently been curious about switching to a time API for my time stamps and removing any dependency the app might have on the server for a timestamp. Upon Googling I found some paid services, some free and of the free ones, I noticed one was hosted on Heroku. I’ve heard of Heroku, but never...

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April 3, 2018

PayTrace: 400 Bad Request For Declined Payment

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TLDR: post IS successful. PayTrace, by design, returns a 400 error, which sets off exceptions in httpresponse. Solution: catch the exception and then continue deserializing your response. I coded a few weeks ago a .NET post to the PayTrace API which helps me demo and test payment by credit card using client side encryption. The…

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March 6, 2018

Step By Step: Accepting Checks via Telecheck, Payeezy & Direct API (.NET)

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This is a very basic tutorial on dealing with Payeezy, who’s documentation I found sometimes difficult. Some of this guidance, I only found in forum threads and so I document… Get What You Need Merchant Demo account Developer Sandbox account Merchant Token (demo) API secret (sandbox) API key (sandbox

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February 21, 2018

.NET Core with PayTrace (Mime Type Fix)

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This year I am re-writing my previous payment solution (from PHP to .NET) and first on the project list is credit cards. We are using PayTrace and their client-side encryption as to not have to worry about PCI Compliance. I’m to the point where I have a Pre-Payment model with all the fields needed to…

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March 23, 2017

PHP/Curl SSL Certificate Error with Payeezy

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As I work toward syncing our as400 to our payment gateway, I’ve encountered an error both in PayTrace and Payeezy sample codes, generally when making a JSON post with Curl in PHP. The error: ssl certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain Almost ALL documentation / research on this suggests you turn off Curl…

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March 17, 2017

PayTrace Client Side Encryption (PHP / IIS)

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This is a quick for-developers-only guide of how to get your PHP/JS code (Windows) talking to PayTrace’s API. I chose the Client Side Encryption as being our first time out, I wanted the least amount of strictness in PCI compliance. This guide assumes you know PHP, JS, JQuery, a little of what an API does,…