Re: Payment gateway integration

Fred,
  Check out http://www.airinter.net

  It's something I've been hacking on for a little while that has most
  of what you are looking for. It's basically a little extension to
  nocat to support payment gateways (cybersource, part of a few others
  too).

  David

On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:17:09AM -0500, Fred Weston wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I apologize if this has been covered previously, but I couldn't seem to find
> a way to search the list archives.  I'm interested in finding out if anyone
> has any information regarding integrating a payment gateway in to
> NoCatAuth's splash page style system.  Basically what I want to do is
> similar to what Starbucks does at their coffee shops.  A user logs on the
> wlan and goes to a page where they can buy access to the Internet by the
> day, hour, or whatever.  Actually, I think Starbucks does the actual payment
> transaction at the register, but what I'd like to do is set up a method of
> charging a credit card through the captive portal.
> 
> This is for a hotel's broadband system which is already in place.  They have
> a wlan which is just connected to a DSL line with a plain old router.  What
> they want to do is replace the router with a PC running some sort of captive
> portal which would make the hotel guests pay for their Internet access.
> 
> >From what I have read NoCat supports several authentication methods.  If I
> could redirect the user out to a secure site on the Internet where they
> could complete their payment transaction, and then have that site send some
> kind of response back to NoCat when the transaction is approved, I could
> avoid trying to figure out someway to integrate some sort of hacked together
> payment system on the NoCat box.  In theory this response would tell NoCat
> that this user (mac address, or whatever) should be allowed access until
> such and such time.
> 
> Any of this sound feasible, or am I way off base thinking this could be
> accomplished?
> 
> Many thanks,
> Fred
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