Re: .htpasswd and PayPal generated passwords

Hi David, When using the IPN feature that PayPal offers, you can optionally have them generate a username:password pair for you. That way it will be stored at paypal and the user can check their history to retrieve it anytime. Robert "David Duong" <david@ethinkn.com> wrote in message news:20030216035703.27088.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > btw - What do you mean by paypal generated passwords? I am interested in > using PayPal as an alternative to my current credit card handler. > > Just a link is appreciated. > > - David > > > "Rob Packer" <robert@nrc.net> wrote in message > news:20030215160907.9109.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > > I use PayPal to generate a username and password and then write them > to > > the .htpasswd file. If I were to switch to using a database (because > > .htaccess seems to always prompt twice!) how would I perform the > comparison > > for the passwords? It would seem that everytime you generate an encrypted > > password it's different. So how would you compare them? Also, does anyone > > know what the encryption method used by PayPal is? > > > > Thanks for any help... > > > > Robert Packer > > > > > >