Re: FLASH: Flash & eCommerce

[valerie.removille]

Thank you John,


Would it be possible to get some shop examples, built with Flash (URLs)?


Val.

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 (John Dowdell)

09/30/99 11:13 PM GMT

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At 5:26 AM 9/30/99,

valerie [dot] removilleac [dot] com

 wrote:

> Would you have some hints regarding which technologies can be

> interfaced with Flash, to build back-ends of those shops, in

> order to set up different level of eCommerce (with or without

> payment by credit cards, with or without delivery track &

> trace, with or without the backorder / cancellation options, ...).


You're right... validation, order-processing, fulfillment and delivery,

back-tracking of orders are all significant differences between various

commerce systems. If you're evaluating backends, then those factors define

some of the different niches.


For the front end it's usually easier. Most all commerce systems use a

basic browser mechanism. They don't care what browser you're using...

they'll just listen for properly-phrased URL requests.


Flash can use GET and POST just like browser forms. When played in a

browser we can piggyback on their HTTPS encryption for secure transactions:

http://www.macromedia.com/go/13931


You'd need to know how to use Flash to send and receive data -- you'd need

to have a good handle on Flash interactivity. You'd also need to be able to

examine the types of requests the commerce server expects, and to replicate

them in Flash... looking at URLs from browser samples can help. It's also

possible that some systems may insist on a browser, although that's usually

rare.


Generally, the commerce server would not usually even know that it's Flash,

rather than a browser, that's placing the order. The bigger variables are

on the back end than on the front end.


jd






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