Question

So a follow up to this question: getting bad request from ruby on rails ssl post.

I fixed that problem and I make the next step in the transaction no problem. The problem I am facing is that their response is sent to an iFrame as a hidden form on an html document. The form then posts to a url that I provide them.

I have tried giving them localhost:3000/policies/complete making a controller action and a route resource for the post but it doesn’t ever show anything.
– It just says javascript error unable to load resource: localhost:3000/policies/complete

So then I tried just /policies/complete (with the coresponding method in my policies controller complete) but for some reason instead of posting to that action – it posted to theirwebserver.com/policies/complete which obviously doesn’t exist.

So since it looks like I have to pass in a whole url for it to work correctly the form is going to look like: <form method='Post' action='whatever whole url I give them'>

The form looks like this:

<form name="frmReturn" method="Post" action="localhost:3000/policies/hosted_checkout_complete">
    <input name="PaymentID" type="hidden" value="the value you need really badly!">
    <input name="ReturnCode" type="hidden" value="0">
    <input name="ReturnMessage" type="hidden" value="Your transaction has been approved."> 
</form>

Tl:DC How do I set up my app to handle that?

I can request that they use get to send the information back to me. If that would be easier to set up and accept please let me know!

Answer 1

You need to add the protocol (either http:// or https://) to the front of the action=

<form name="frmReturn" method="Post" action="http://localhost:3000/policies/hosted_checkout_complete">

However, I would NOT recommend doing this… You have completely missed the point of Rails routing. You should be doing something like this:

<form name="frmReturn" method="Post" action="<%= resource_url %>">

Ideally, you’d use the Rails form builders:

<%= form_for :resource, :action => 'hosted_checkout_complete' do %>