PayPal IPN & LC

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Wed May 2 13:56:26 EDT 2012


Congrats on working through all this.

Slightly off topic but related.  I assume you're doing this to send out
license codes or something similar. Some time ago, I had a need to
automatically react to someone purchasing  one or more  mp3 music files.
 This is way before I even knew about LiveCode and certainly didn't know
anything about htmp, cgi. php, etc.

At the time I was using the Mac Mail client and it lets you define rules
for identifying and processing incoming messages, including the ability to
run an Applescript.  I was able to cobble together an Applescript that
tracked down the mp3 file(s) that had been purchsed (using the PayPal
product codes) and send an automated reply to the purchaser with download
link(s) to them.

It worked pretty nicely for me.  I've long since switched to using gMail
and although its Filters are somewaht equivalent to the Mail rules, you
can't specify any type of external script to run against messages
identified by a filter.  I really miss that now that I'm involved with
sending out license codes!  I may have to go back to using the Mail client
just to collect PayPal messages.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:38 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> On 5/2/12 11:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> Ouch!
>>
>
> :) I'll post something once I'm sure the real page works. It's been a
> long, hard journey. I've decided I hate web servers.
>
>
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