Gurus,
I have a server running Windows Server 2003 Web Edition running multiple web
sites on the same server. All the web sites on this server are owned by the
same company. The company does secure credit card processing through a
payment processing company gateway service.
The company that owns the web sites wants to have a single payment gateway
mechanism for all the web sites on the server. Instead of having each of the
web sites call the payment processing gateway separately, they would like to
send the request to a dedicated web site on the server which then handles
the requests to the payment processors gateway server.
This allows the company to reduce costs, one of which is the number of SSL
certificates installed for the secure payment processing...
Can you suggest ways for these web sites to talk to the "web site" that
talks to the payment gateway service OR comment on the following thoughts
that have crossed my mind?
1) Create a specific web site like http://paymentprocessing.mycompany.com
which only accepts authenticated secure web service calls from the other web
sites on the server and then this site talks to the payment processing
gateway.
2) Possibly create a windows service that talks to the payment processing
gateway directly and have the web sites talk to the windows service.
3) Write code that runs on the web servers that talks directly to the
application domain running the payment processing code that talks to the
payment processor gateway...I don't know if this is feasible or even a
reliable method and if so, how is it done? The payment processing code could
be an application that starts when the machine is booted up.
Thanks,
Gery
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Gery D. Dorazio
Development Engineer
EnQue Corporation
1334 Queens Road
Charlotte, NC 28207
(704) 377-3327