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PayTrace: 400 Bad Request For Declined Payment

TLDR: post IS successful. PayTrace, by design, returns a 400 error, which sets off exceptions in httpresponse. Solution: catch the exception and then continue deserializing your response.

I coded a few weeks ago a .NET post to the PayTrace API which helps me demo and test payment by credit card using client side encryption. The process more or less went like this:

Create demo account as a merchant on Paytrace
Download PEM key
On submit of form with credit card information, an imported PayTraceJS library encrypts the card number and csc code
Use the demo account’s username and password to submit a request for a token
Submit transaction (which includes encrypted info as well as other required fields) using token and await response

A successful http response returns a status code of 200. I read it via stream, deserialize it using json into my CardResponse object (both successful and failure responses have the same design). Everything went great until I began testing rejected cards.

.NET Core with PayTrace (Mime Type Fix)

February 21, 2018 No Comments

This year I am re-writing my previous payment solution (from PHP to .NET) and first on the project list is credit cards. We are using PayTrace and their client-side encryption as to not have to worry about PCI Compliance.

I’m to the point where I have a Pre-Payment model with all the fields needed to send via JSON. I also have a method to request a token for sending (uses demo username and pass) and a test PEM file I downloaded from the PayTrace site. I also got the webpage scanning credit cards, and I hit submit and.. I get this:

XML Parsing Error: no element found

This is appearing in the console of Inspector in Firefox. Turns out this a generic error Firefox throws out when it’s expending a file but gets nothing.

My path’s are correct, but the “public_key.pem” file is not attaching to my post. The problem? MIME-type.