V-cash

A Study in Electronic Commerce: Setting Up A Purchasing Page

Cornell University
Computer Science Department
Masters of Engineering Project
Spring 1998

Han-Yang Lo
Sanjeev Topiwala
Joyce Wang
with assistance from Keith Sollers

Under the supervision of: Professor Fred B. Schneider
last modified: Thursday, 4/23/98


Setting Up A Purchasing Page

To set up a purchasing page for use with V-óa$h software, you will need to know some basic HTML for your web site. For a simple Javascript implementation of a shopping cart, try JShop or you can try writing your own shopping cart in Java, C, Perl, or some other programming language.

Sending the Information to the Consumer software

After your web page preprocessing of information, you will need to send four pieces of information to the Consumer V-óa$h software:

each on separate lines. You can download an example cgi suite written in Perl, and bundled with the JShop software. These test scripts also include a script to change the IP and port number of the merchant. Please keep in mind that these were written as an example, for demonstration purposes only. When sending this information, the MIME type must be set to application/vcash.

Available Documentation

Specifications
Design Documentation
Consumer User Manual
Merchant User Manual
Bank User Manual
Demonstration of V-óa$h