Is PayPal Form Submittal Secure? -...

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Have Web Builder 2.2 on Win XP.

I have a business PayPal account already. I am a bit spooked about providing my PayPal user address hidden inside a form that can be read by a text reader.

When I publish a form for use...will my PayPal Account sign in name be "visible" to anyone who wants to look at my page HTML code?

This token that you talk about...I do not know what it is yet. Is this like a password? Why wouldnt someone with a text reader be able to impersonate my logins by reading them from within the form text?

Besides "magic", how does my account stay really secure at PayPal when I seemingly expose my login name and a token. Maybe someone could post data to this possibly?

Im new to this payment from a form security issue

Thanks
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Firstly, if your really worried, set up a new Email address specifically for The form,at Paypal

(ie) if your using me@mydomain.com at present

set up 2purchase@mydomain.com (the NUMBER is another spam deterent)

Now if anything untowards ever happens you can track where from

BUT to be honest, the form is set up much the same way as in SCC or SCCP or any other shopping cart, when your client clicks on Pay it goes to Paypal ssl and thats about as secure as you can get at present.

Hackers dont have access to Paypal, and thats where your passwords are not in the form
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User 1963878 Photo


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So, you are saying that my PayPal sign in name (or my PayPal password) is NOT in the clear in the submission code in the form... when you look under the hood in a html editor?

How does coffee cup gain access to my PayPal Stuff in order for a PayPal shopping cart to be created?

Thanks
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Uses a secure token setup that Paypal came up with.:)
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