Re: Paypal not responding to rev cgi post

2005-10-21 Thread Thomas McCarthy
Scott Rossi wrote: Since your students are first going through your system and storing a unique key, your CGI could also generate an HTML download page with that key (or some other unique identifier) as part of the Web address (ie http://www.mydomain.com/download/user72635463.html). There's

Paypal not responding to rev cgi post

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas McCarthy
I'm trying to implement a PayPal solution to registering my software. Here's the flow: 1. students/users start up my app and click 'register' 2. A register_window rev stack is downloaded and the user chooses some basic options. 3. They click send and my stack generates a key (thanks to Ken Ray

Re: Paypal not responding to rev cgi post

2005-10-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, You're warned not to sell things using PayPal from your software so that the user clearly sees what the browser is doing... Best is to redirect to the browser page, the IPN spec works best using HTTPS, it's the only way, also IPN is not realtime, it will broadcast messages to

Re: Paypal not responding to rev cgi post

2005-10-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Thomas McCarthy wrote: I'm trying to implement a PayPal solution to registering my software. ... Right now, testing with the PayPal sandbox system, I have to say it's good enough without verification, and my app isn't something folks are likely to spend a lot of time trying to