Hi Jacque, Where exactly is the CGI sending the return message? The URL should start with ssl://www.sandbox.paypal.com/...
I do this with PHP and that has worked fine for years. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 We will have room for new projects after 1 June. Contact me now and be first in line. On 29 apr 2012, at 05:34, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I'm not sure who to ask about this. If someone knows where the problem is, > I'll ask in an appropriate forum somewhere. > > I've implemented PayPal's Instant Payment Notification system using an > old-style CGI on my (non-rev) server. It works fine. Paypal sends a > notification, my cgi responds, Paypal sends "validated", and I process the > order. The data always comes in and I always get the validation response. > That should be the end of it. > > But PayPal's sandbox test tool consistently shows an error and replies "IPN > delivery failed. Unable to connect to the specified URL. Please verify the > URL and try again." Obviously it did find my server and URL, because my > script received the data and has responded back to Paypal, which in turn has > responded with a validation. > > So I set up a test button on a fake web page and used their sandbox accounts > to "buy" from myself. Paypal sends its message, my cgi gets the data, sends > it back, it's validated, and then Paypal starts resending the notification > every 2 minutes forever until I turn off the system. The IPN docs say Paypal > will resend notifications until it gets a response. When I look at the IPN > history, there is no server response code for any of the messages (it should > be 200.) The response code field is just empty. > > So I think what's happening is my server isn't acknowledging receipt of the > messages, which causes Paypal to think it can't reach me, and it keeps > resending. > > Is the problem a header I should be using? A server problem? Some kind of > block somewhere? ISP setup? Anyone know where I should start looking? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
