(VBScript) CardConnect Validate Merchant-Level Credentials

To test and validate merchant-level credentials, you can make a PUT request, including the merchant ID in the body of the request, to the base URL. The Gateway verifies that the MID matches the credentials provided in the header.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

set http = CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")

http.BasicAuth = 1
http.Login = "API_USERNAME"
http.Password = "API_PASSWORD"

set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.UpdateString("merchid","MERCHANT_ID")

url = "https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/"

set resp = CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpStr("PUT",url,json.Emit(),"utf-8","application/json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' If we get a 200 response status and an HTML response saying "CardConnect REST Servlet", then our credentials are correct.
outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)

outFile.WriteLine("response string:")
outFile.WriteLine(resp.BodyStr)

' Sample output:

' response status code = 200
' response string:
' <html lang="en"><body><h1>CardConnect REST Servlet</h1></body></html

outFile.Close