How to send a generated key to e-junkie via HTTP

[koodi]

I am testing my key generator (hosted in my site), coding with PHP.



Once my key generator is executed, I must allow e-junkie to capture this key license so it's going to be embedded into the receipt email the customer receives.



So does anyone know what's the PHP function I must use to send the result (the generated key) back to the e-junkie's server? I'm not sure if it's a simple "echo" or I must use something like "curl".



Any hint will be very appreciated.

[E-junkie_Guru]

First, I'll refer you to our help page for sending generated codes:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.keygen.htm



In a nutshell, you'd configure your product in Seller Admin with the Send Generated Codes setting enabled. That will allow you to enter a keygen URL for the product. When a buyer orders that product, once their payment is completed, our service will tap your keygen URL to obtain a code. Whatever raw text output your URL returns will be forwarded as-is in the thank-you email we send to the buyer.

[koodi]

Hi thanks for the comment!

I'm following what is in the HELP page you mentioned, but what I'm not sure is what's the correct way to output the keycodes using PHP. If I just use "print", all the keycodes are publicly available using a browser.

[E-junkie_Guru]

We can't advise you on general programming techniques, but we can clarify aspects of how our system works.



Yes, since we would be hitting the URL of your keygen script via HTTP, that means if someone already knew the exact URL of your keygen script somehow, then browsing to that URL directly would display a generated code unless you take precautions to prevent that.



You may want to program your keygen to require some of the parameters we POST to its URL, as documented on the help page I linked previously -- in particular, note the 'handshake' parameter, which you may find useful to validate when our server is contacting yours.



Assuming you're hosted on a Linux-based server running the typical Apache web server software, you may want to place the keygen in its own subdirectory, then in that same folder place the following directives in a plaintext file named ".htaccess", which tells Apache to only allow connections from e-junkie.com:



<limit GET>

satisfy any

order allow,deny

Allow from e-junkie.com

</limit>



<limit POST>

satisfy any

order allow,deny

Allow from e-junkie.com

</limit>