Would you mind if I passed this feedback along to their team? Paypal has been pretty helpful to us in the past when we've had issues.
-- Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Philippe Beaudoin < [email protected]> wrote: > PayPal production API server seems faster, plus it looks like I get my > full 10s of URLFetch on the deployed version (I definitely don't get > them in the development server). For the moment our solution is "log > and see", That is, we log/email everytime a URLFetch timeout occurs on > the PayPal request and look into the issue manually, removing double > billings and/or contacting the client. > > If this happens too often then my alternate solution would be to: > - Start a recurring payment with PayPal with a 0.01$ payment and a > very far first payment date. > - Get the ProfileId back from paypal (or a timeout, in which case we > retry). > - Once we have the ProfileID we modify the PayPal profile to the real > amout and the real payment date. > - Manually remove the leftover 0.01$ profile once in a while. > > What would be really needed is for paypal to allow us to request only > a ProfileId without creating a payment profile, but I don't see this > anywhere in their API. > > Cheers, > > Philippe > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) > <[email protected] <ikai.l%[email protected]>> wrote: > > What are your solutions? I've heard that the Paypal sandbox is slower, > but > > the production API server is relatively fast. Is this your experience? > > > > -- > > Ikai Lan > > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > > Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Philippe Beaudoin > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I recently integrated a PayPal Website Payments Pro account with our > >> AppEngine app, using recurring profile for subscriptions. An issue I > have is > >> that I can sometime hit the 10s limit of URLFetch which lead to > recurring > >> profiles being registered over at PayPal but no way for my AppEngine app > to > >> know about them. This in turn can lead to double billing. > >> Were you guys able to solve that problem elegantly? (My solutions are a > >> bit hacky.) > >> Cheers, > >> Philippe > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "Google App Engine" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Google App Engine" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-appengine%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
