Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 09/19/06 02:19

veg_all@yahoo.com wrote:
> I am often surprised to see many websites require that the credit card
> not be entered with any spaces or dashes. This is very trivial to
> remove those characters that I wonder about the security of my cc
> number given the developer can not code this . Am I missing something
> about this?
>

It's just extra work. Most credit card processors want the card number
without spaces and blanks. And many sites pass the information directly
on to the credit card processor.

Parsing the card number would require an extra step for the customer or
something like CURL to post the info to the card processor.

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