It really depends on the application. The cart I maintain gets the info back from verisign via the post, *and* an e-mailed recript. Also, we routinely verify large orders at verisign directly. I'll admit that it's a hole, I just don't think it's a very big one. Just my $.02 worth, Dave On Friday, 04 Jan 2002, keith royster wrote: > PAYFLOW LINK SERVICE DESCRIPTION: The final checkout page of various online > shopping cart applications presents the shopper with a form asking for credit > card acct#, exp date, etc. When the shopper submits the form, the data is sent > directly to the vendor's PayFlow Link account at Verisign for validation. If > the credit card information is validated, Verisign authorizes payment and > submits the data back to the vendors shopping cart application. When the > vendor's shopping app receives this data, it assumes payment was authorized and > finalizes the order for the vendor to fill and ship it.