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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by unkown-unknowns on Friday August 18, 2017 @11:51AM (#15047249)
Eons past, the HTTP status code 402 was reserved for future use; "Payment Required".

Please to god W3C, take 402 and make it part of that standard! I so wish for us all to be able to respond 402 and have a simple standard way to charge.

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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by objclxt on Friday August 18, 2017 @12:13PM (#15047459)
Payment Request is a JS / client-side API (it's all about getting payment information from the browser to the website), so HTTP codes don't really come into it.

However, there's a proposed server/HTTP specification that does include it. It lacks the same broad support that Payment Request has, so is still in quite an early stage of development - https://www.w3.org/TR/webpayments-http-api/

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Re:E-commerce will evolve next month as Amazon loses the 1-C... by captn3m0 on Friday August 18, 2017 @01:52PM (#15048288)
This is what GNU Taler [0] does. You can send additional headers[1] to decide how the payment will be processed, such as X-Taler-Contract-Url and X-Taler-Offer-Url

[1]: https://docs.taler.net/merchant/frontend/python/html/tutoria...

[0]: https://taler.net/en/index.html

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