Thank you so much, Rick. The shop I am working with has a few of your [West Wind Technology] gadgets on their servers - they swear by em. I appreciate the information!

>>I need to develop a proposal for a content service. Any recomendations for a reasonable easy to implement CC authorization service would be great. Servers will be IIS. ASP may or may not be installed. CGI may be all we have on the server side.
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>I use Authorize.NET through MerchantPlus which has been working great and is very easy to integrate with a simple HTTP interface which means no special APIs or other complicated configuration on the server.
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>Whatever you do at this stage I would look carefully to avoid any provider that doesn't provide an HTTP interface since API configuration and installation on a server is a PITA (such as Verisign's PayFlowPro which requires API and COM object).
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>+++ Rick ---