I don't know if the request body they send requires any further processing, but you could try:
message = request.body.read() Anthony On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 3:52:47 AM UTC-5, Martin wrote: > > This is the documentation provided by the payments company: > " > > *The IPN protocol consists of three steps:* > > 1. Payson sends your IPN listener a message that notifies you of the > event. > 2. Your listener sends the complete unaltered message back to Payson; > the message must contain the same parameters in the same order and be > encoded in the same way as the original message. > 3. Payson sends a single word back, which is either VERIFIED if the > message originated from Payson or INVALID if there is any discrepancy > with what was originally sent. > > " > I am by no means an experienced web developer so I might have > misunderstood something, but I figured I need to do something like the > following; > > message = request.vars > request = urllib2.Request(cmd, message) > response = urllib2.urlopen(request) > . > The problem here is that message needs to be a string so the first line is > obviously not correct. What could I do instead? > > Edit: I could do urllib.urlencode(request.vars) which manages to send the > message back, but the response is INVALID, likely because the ordering of > the parameters and maybe the encoding isn't the same as what they sent. I > do not know how web2py handles requests, but could I perhaps intercept the > message before it is turned into a Storage object or could the problem be > solved in some other way? > > Edit2: Seems to have solved it with the request.body.read() method! > > > > > On Friday, 5 February 2016 01:19:17 UTC+1, Anthony wrote: >> >> What is the nature of the message and how has it been altered in >> request.vars. By what means are you supposed to "send it back"? >> >> On Thursday, February 4, 2016 at 12:39:03 PM UTC-5, Martin wrote: >>> >>> I'm trying to construct an instant payment notification listener in >>> web2py. This requires me to receive a message from the other party and send >>> it back unaltered. But I only have access to the request.vars which is a >>> Storage object and already altered? How would I go about doing this? >>> >>> Hope you can help me with this! >>> >> -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
