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Browse All TopicsI'm on a non-secure server and I'd like to present a form for credit card information with the form action being a secure payment gateway. Is this secure? That is, the customer puts http://mySite/Product into his browser to bring down a form that includes credit card information and when he selects Submit, the form action is https://myPaymentGateway. This seems secure since the credit card information isn't coming to my site. I am assuming that when the customer selects Submit and the submit code in his browser sees that the form informaton is going to a secure server, an SSL handshake is executed between the customer's browser and the Payment Gateway and the informatoin is then sent off securely. My non-secure server is completely out of the loop and I couldn't see the information if I wanted to.
I'm being told, though, that this arrangement would not be secure; that the fact that the form came originally from a non-secure server makes the entire transaction non-secure and that Visa and MasterCard would be all over me for not complying with their security rules.
Could someone shed some light here? Web programming is a new field for me and though I've got 14 books open around me on the floor, I don't find any treatment of this subject.
Thanks for any help
steva
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