NAB Transact orders not appearing in admin since move to new server

[DrByte]

Not sure if it's by design. If it is, it is strange ZC allows the cart to operate without SSL, but forces SSL at a certain point. Why not enforce the fact cart must have SSL everywhere? I digress.

Well .. not "everything" needs to be SSL. Do all the "product" and product-listing pages need to be SSL? Why?

As far as checkout, Zen Cart does already pass the 'SSL' parameter for all checkout and my-account, etc pages. Same with built-in payment modules.
3rd-party module writers need to also embrace that programming convention, especially those who cannot allow for payment on-site and must rely on passing things back and forth with callbacks etc.

[i2ts]

Well .. not "everything" needs to be SSL. Do all the "product" and product-listing pages need to be SSL? Why?

I should have been more specific I was refering to the checkout process . I agree, the catalogue doesn't need SSL.

As far as checkout, Zen Cart does already pass the 'SSL' parameter for all checkout and my-account, etc pages.

As far as I know ZC doesn't force the shopping cart owners to have SSL for checkout process. I have test installation of ZC running on local my servers without SSL. Am I missing something?

[DrByte]

Of course Zen Cart can't "force" anybody to do anything. It can't force you to eat your green vegetables each day either.

But, if the storeowner enables SSL on their hosting account and then tells Zen Cart to enable SSL and gives the SSL URL, then Zen Cart will use that SSL info when it builds every page/form that ought to be protected by SSL, such as checkout, login, myAccount, admin, etc. As far as core code is concerned anyway.
Third-party addons which don't specify that a particular URL needs to be SSL, as I described in my earlier posts, won't benefit from that automatic use of SSL.

[i2ts]

After checking the implementation of the zen_href_link() function I get your orignal point. If I simply pass the value 'SSL' for the $connection parameter the function will check if SSL is enabled and construct the URL. Hence (ENABLE_SSL ? 'SSL' : 'NONSSL') is redundant in my code.

$gateway_vars['return_link_url'] = zen_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_SUCCESS, '', 'SSL', true);
$gateway_vars['reply_link_url'] = zen_href_link(FILENAME_CHECKOUT_PROCESS, $query_string,  'SSL' ); 

is more efficient