PayPal IPN & LC

[Terry Judd]

On 02/05/2012, at 6:19 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 5/1/12 2:02 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The Paypal API should wait for a receipt confirmation response from
>> your script before it quits.
> 
> Thanks Pierre. I added "put "ok"" but it still times out. I don't know what Paypal expects back. The sample PHP scripts I looked at don't respond with anything. They just send a POST and that's all.
> 
> I think there may be a problem with libURL and the POST command.

I agree - I've had a few problems with the POST command over https as well (nothing to do with Paypal). Someone suggested trying the alternate POST routines in Trevor's GLX app framework but I could't get them to work as they seemed to be incompatible with 4.6 and on.

Terry...

> 
> My log shows that the socket is left open for up to a minute or more. If I add a command to close the socket, I get a server 500 error. If I don't close the socket, the script completes without error but the connection hangs. Then Paypal says it couldn't contact the server.
> 
> I have tried:
> 
> 1. Looping through the opensockets and closing each one
>   --> server 500 error
> 2. Looping through the opensockets and closing each one within a try/catch structure
>   --> server 500 error
> 3. Closing only line 1 of the opensockets
>  --> server 500 error
> 4. Setting the httpHeaders to "Connection: close"
>  --> server 500 error (but libURL sets that header by default anyway)
> 5. Setting the socketTimeoutInterval to different values between 1000 and 30000
>  --> no effect
> 6. Not doing anything after a POST
>  -- 1 minute hang, Paypal says it can't connect
> 
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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