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On Dec 3, 2007 5:01 PM, Joel Hughes <jh at jojet.com> wrote:
> Hi [_],
> for the ecom bods floating around in this virtual, electric brain...
>
> ...anyone know much about "3D SECURE"? What the bottom line?
>
> Joel
>

It can be a nightmare to implement if my experience with it in
DataCash is anything to go by. The main problem is that it will
probably interrupt your current workflow since you will need to obtain
a url for the card isssuer's authentication script and bounce to that.
The user does their 3DSecure authentication there and that script will
then return a response to a handler script at your end so that you can
either complete the transaction or report any errors.  Its good to
have though since it means that for most transactions the liability
shifts to the card issuer.

If you are able to hand off your ecommerce integration to something
like gpayments or paypal you can forget about a lot of this though.


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