{"id":2893,"date":"2016-07-07T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2016-07-06T16:07:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T23:07:06","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-authorize-net-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-latest-authorize-net-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about the latest Authorize.net updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2894\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/secure_payment.jpg\" alt=\"secure_payment\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/secure_payment.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/secure_payment-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Authorize.net has completed some important upgrades on the way online stores transfer payment information to their data centers. On a practical level, this means that their subdomain has changed from \u201csecure\u201d to \u201csecure2.\u201d At this point the change is optional but is highly recommended by Authorize.net as it will provide merchants with a superior level of processing reliability.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What will change?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the last months, Authorize.Net have been working on changes to increase security to merchants. Now, instead of allowing direct connections, all Internet traffic will be routed through Akamai, a third-party cloud network service that routes and delivers Internet traffic. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Akamai network technology will help decrease latency and improve the reliability of the payment gateway. It will also help safeguard against interruptions caused by issues beyond Authorize.Net\u2019s direct control, such as Internet congestion, fiber cable cuts and other similar issues. Additionally, come October, merchants connected to Akamai should no longer be affected by planned downtimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do I have to do?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The migration to Akamai is voluntary, but remains highly recommended. Authorize.Net will not automatically direct their existing URLs to Akamai as they had previously communicated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new Akamai SureRoute transaction URLs that are available now are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/api2.authorize.net\/xml\/v1\/request.api<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/api2.authorize.net\/soap\/v1\/Service.asmx<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/secure2.authorize.net\/gateway\/transact.dll<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If your site uses a firewall to filter outbound connections, make sure that the firewall is set to permit outbound traffic to flow to the Akamai cloud by configuring your outbound firewall to &#8220;ANY.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you don&#8217;t know whether your solution uses a firewall or would like assistance to perform these changes, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/services\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hire us<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorize.net has completed some important upgrades on the way online stores transfer payment information to their data centers. On a practical level, this means that their subdomain has changed from \u201csecure\u201d to \u201csecure2.\u201d At this point the change is optional but is highly recommended by Authorize.net as it will provide merchants with a superior level&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":2894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[586],"tags":[592,644,656],"class_list":["post-2893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-development","tag-authorize-net","tag-security","tag-upgrade"],"modified_by":"Luiza Libardi","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/secure_payment.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}