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New pages up: Atomic Inc, Bass Piratez, DJ Zappa and teroMUD. atoChat v1.0 is basically ready so a beta link will be added to the atoChat page late March, if you would like to try the beta before that time then please send me your email address through the contact form, thanks. atoChat v1.0 screenshots to follow…

Here is a screenshot of atoChat v0.5 in action:

While configuring SagePay Direct for an osCommerce store I made, the checkout process wasn’t going through because SagePay was returning error 4020. This means that the IP address I added to the “Valid IPs” tab on the SagePay control panel isn’t matching up with the IP address the request is coming from. If you’re getting this error too then it is most likely because you’ve entered the wrong IP. If you put SagePay into Simulator mode it will show you the IP it received the request from.

If you definitely have the correct IP address added, then it is due to something else… I already did this and confirmed that I’ve definitely entered the right IP address in, so why am I still getting the error?

Attempt #1: I figured out that perhaps SagePay had updated their API and my SagePay Direct payment module was out of date? The osCommerce community addons website shows that the latest version of SagePay Direct payment module is v1.1, whereas I was using v1.0. It seems that the osCommerce v2.3.1 package I downloaded shipped with SagePay Direct v1.0. After installing v1.1 I am still getting the same error. Something else must be up?

Attempt #2 (solution!): SagePay seems to be returning “Error 4020: Invalid IP Address” because the transaction wasn’t being secured with SSL. It’s actually a legal requirement in UK, due to data security standards laws, to secure all sensitive information (address, credit card numberr, etc) by having the checkout process encrypted with 128bit SSL. The error seems to have gone away.

Sup. I’ve been wanting to update atomiku.com for a while now. At first I was planning to design and build a very simple “holding page” styled template that had only links to my music, projects, etc… but instead decided that if I run my site on wordpress, it would open up the option for me to write about the various things that I discover and learn, mostly about web development. I have a moderately-sized list of things I want to write about that I’ve been adding to, for the past year, for when I eventually have some time. The list contains post ideas mostly about code, such as tutorials, script-hacks, fixes, etc. When I’ve got stuff a little more organized in life I will find the time to get the posts out there, but in the meantime enjoy what I currently have uploaded here. Music, mixes and atoChat v0.5. Heh. For anyone who is wondering, atoChat v1.0 is basically done and it kicks ass, but I need to do more beta testing on it before I release it. Soon I will post some screenshots and a list of new features. If anyone is interested in beta testing, leave a comment. Peace out.

A Casual Entanglement by *ex-artris1701 on deviantART – thanks for the nice wallpaper!