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The customer uses Authorize.net's Sever Integration Module to handle credit card payments. It was easily integrated with our web based product but they also wanted to use it with our desktop app. We accomplish that by having the VFP code bring up a browser instance using IE automation which takes the user to the Authnet site. When the payment is complete, Authnet is set up to call our web app, where the results are posted to the customer's database.
Now they want to use a card reader so they can swipe cards instead of typing numbers into the Authnet web form. Can this be done, working strictly from the client side? There does not appear to be any sort of support for card readers in the SIM service (altho Authnet makes a separate VPOS web product which does have that support). If we were working with the foxpro form there are ActiveX controls we could use to poll the reader, but here we want to enter the data into a remote site via the browser session.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
--stein