topic Re: ARB and SIlent Post response in Integration and Testing

ARB and SIlent Post response

Silviacm2013 — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 09:57:52 GMT

Hi,

I'm using a test account to create ARB subscriptions with c# API. I want to use the Silent Post to receive the recurring payments but I'm not having any response and I there is a payment transaction. The URL used is public and it is a Webdservice method with one parameter to receive the all the fields from Authorize. Am I doing it right?

Thanks.

Re: ARB and SIlent Post response

TJPride — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 01:38:21 GMT

Don't think test accounts post for ARB. If you want to test silent post, you will need to either run through an AIM transaction, or get a production account. Though you can see a sample response here:
http://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/Integration-and-Testing/ARB-service-and-silent-mode-testing/m-p/949/highlight/true#M805

Re: ARB and SIlent Post response

gillytech — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 05:55:30 GMT

Somehow when I try to follow that link I get an access denied message. I have an active account with verified email address... is there another way to get me this resource?

Re: ARB and SIlent Post response

RaynorC1emen7 — Sun, 02 Mar 2014 11:44:45 GMT

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3413710/testing-silent-post-with-authorize-net

silent post work the same way as a relay response

Re: ARB and SIlent Post response

shkkmo — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 22:17:05 GMT

I now have to recommend against relying on silentPosts to determine if a transaction occurred. Instead you should query for transactions using the transaction details API http://developer.authorize.net/api/transaction_details/

We use silent posts to track when ARB transaction succeed or fail. On a certain day we did not receive silent posts from Auth.net even though transactions occurred. I have checked our logs, the server was up and responsive at the time when the transactions were processed. When I contacted Auth.net for more information they could provide nothing except “we don’t see any error messages/codes”.

I learned two things from the supervisor I talked to:
1) Auth.net does not check response codes for their silentPosts
2) Auth.net does not log anything for silentPosts except some error codes.

This means that silentPost is not reliable (and hence, should not be used).