G'day Christian On 2/25/07, Christian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All the recent pain regarding the two-plugin approach for eSellerate > is why I have yet to release any new UB shareware. Is there a nice > integrated way to use PayPal? I've read a little about their IPN > mechanism. It'd be great to have an app-based solution where the app > connects to paypal securely with the buyer's information, and then > asks the developer's server if the payment was successful, along with > the serial number. > > My web host allows for a merchant account, etc. I think that is too > costly a solution, but would provide the best end-user experience. > > I also just tried making a console app and uploading it to my web > host. When I tried running it, I was greeted with a 500 server > error. Looking around my host's site, they say that they only allow > perl & python cgi. >
I've got paypal working with realbasic by opening internet explorer, passing in a url that indicates what the user is buying, and checking the current html page to see if they have successfuly paid. Hope that helps. -- Keith Hutchison http://balance-infosystems.com http://realopen.org http://www.kasamba.com/Keith-Hutchison _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
