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diff --git a/example-essay-store.rst b/example-essay-store.rst index 2a240f86..ec22ff42 100644 --- a/example-essay-store.rst +++ b/example-essay-store.rst @@ -20,21 +20,17 @@ Example: Essay Store ================================== -To properly understand this example, the reader should be familiar with Taler's terminology; -in particular, definitions like `contract`, `fulfillment URL`, `offering URL`, and `deposit permission`, -are assumed to be known. Refer to :ref:`contract`, :ref:`payprot` and :ref:`deposit-par` in order to get -some general insight on terms and interactions between components. +This section shows how to set up a merchant :ref:`frontend <merchant-arch>`, and is +inspired by our demonstration shop running at `https://blog.demo.taler.net/`. -This section describes how the demonstrator essay store interacts with the Taler system. As for Taler's -terminology, the demonstrator essay store is an example of `frontend`. -This demonstrator's code is hosted at `git://taler.net/merchant-frontends/talerfrontends/blog/` and is -implemented in Python. +The code we are going to describe is available at +https://git.taler.net/merchant-frontends.git/tree/talerfrontends/blog +and is implemented in Python+Flask. -The essay store, available at https://blog.demo.taler.net, is such that its homepage -is a list of titles from buyable articles and each title links to an `offer URL`. -In particular, the offer URLs have the following format: +The desired effect is that the homepage has a list of buyable article, and once the +user clicks on one of them, they will either get the Taler :ref:`contract <contract>` +or a credit card paywall if they have no Taler wallet installed. - `https://blog.demo.taler.net/essay/article_title` The offer URLs trigger the expected interaction with the wallet. In practical terms, the offer URL returns a HTML page that can either show a pay-form in case Taler is not installed |