Hello programmers, it has been a while i posted here; well , i have been busy doing some real code, for my company and at the same time doing some research work on online payment engine. I must say that i am really disappointed with the payment engines we have on ground at the moment not because they are not doing well but because i found them really prone to futuristic attacks. My point is  they lack real security as regards real transaction processing. I have worked with the eTransact as well as Interswitch(The current market dominating payment engine), i have integrated a number of sites with these payment engines ( i will be sharing my experiences about integration with eTransacts and Interswitch payment engine in my blog  http://www.youbanize.com).I am surprised that in all, the concept of secure transaction is less considered. I expected the payment gateways to provide apis for developers to hook up with and process transaction but what you are given is a document with over 90 error codes you have to test on return and some sample code you have to customize for usage. I expected stuff like CURL ,SOAP (Although Interswitch WebPAY uses nuSOAP) or XML_RPC, or RESTful transactions. Well i can understand the fact that not everyone may be knowledgeable in using this tools but i find them really impressive and time saving.Having a site running behind secure http(https), does not imply that it is secure, if you doubt what i am saying check out slashdot, and read up the article on how the biggest search engine email application's CAPTCHA code validation was cracked- Google GMail; was it not running behind https?
Hey for your information , the first female programmer i have come in contact with is the person in charge of the Interswitch payment integration and the second is the girl sitting besides me in the office. Well they are good i must say, but we need more of them to challenge male programmers.

cdeveloper but my friends call me Ama.

Thats a good one, but just know that there will never be a secure system, Thanks