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No tech post this week. Instead, I've been quite busy these last few weeks taking care of some important paperwork for EAP and trying to find time to get a new application of mine online to sell and pull in some side-income. The aforementioned paperwork has been submitted, so that leaves the whole online commerce affair to sort out.
The hardest part of the site, the secure downloader system, is 90% complete; now I just have to figure out how to automate purchases to allow people to download my program as soon as they purchase it. Luckily, PayPal has a system in-place that allows me to verify purchases. Once I receive notification of a successful order, my system will place the order into my download system and offer the purchaser an opportunity to download the program right away. Quick and painless, and most of all completely automated!
Yeah, so that's it. More updates as they develop!
The download system will allow one download per ID, so sharing the URL won't do any good once it's been used up. If the download fails...hmm, I knew this would come up, and to be honest I haven't really thought of a good solution. Perhaps I'll allow a limited number of downloads (two or three per purchase).
By EER @ Wed Feb 20, 2008 06:41 AM
What if the buyer would share the URL? And if it's one-time only, what if the download fails?
Other than that, yay :D