I was reading the official documentations about the IPN here: https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNIntro/
Then i notice that:
The IPN message authentication protocol consists of four steps:
PayPal HTTPS POSTs an IPN message to your listener that notifies it of an event.
Your listener returns an empty HTTP 200 response to PayPal.
Your listener HTTPS POSTs the complete, unaltered message back to PayPal; >the message must contain the same fields (in the same order) as the original message and be encoded in the same way as the original message.
PayPal sends a single word back - either VERIFIED (if the message matches the original) or INVALID (if the message does not match the original).
On my current lambda endpoint that i used as the IPN notify URL i can do the steps 1 and 2. But how am i supposed to do steps 3 and 4 if i need to return a 200 with a blank body before it?
I assume Paypal expects step 2 to happen before steps 3 and 4. You cannot do this by using only one Lambda function.
You can use the listener Lambda function to put the payload as a message to SNS and let another Lambda function be invoked when SNS topic received a message.
See Invoking Lambda functions using Amazon SNS notifications for more details.
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I just started working with PayPal online payment system, I started making smart buttons in PayPal but I could not implement what I wanted.
I need that when the user enters a value in the Field Text after paying PayPal send request to a php file on my server with the information
For example, I want the user to enter their Username and send this request to an address after payment:
www.site.com/paypal/success.php?username=enteredeusername&product=ID_ID
Use a server-based PayPal Checkout integration.
Make two routes on your server, one for 'Create Order' and one for 'Capture Order', documented here. These routes should accept JSON requests and return JSON to the requester. The action they should perform is to call the respective PayPal APIs before returning their result. The capture one in particular should do validation before sending the capture to PayPal, and write any necessary information to your database before returning its result to the caller JS.
Pair your above two routes with the following approval flow: https://developer.paypal.com/demo/checkout/#/pattern/server
To your question about how to send a Username as part of their request, you can simply put it in your fetch's URL. Alternatively you can add a JSON request body to your fetch, and have your server parse the JSON request, that's just more sophisticated/advanced than the URL method; either will get the job done.
I'm able to create single send for a segment from API, but it is not being sent and its status is shown as "draft"
as "send_at" (says that it must be a datetime in the future) is optional and also in the single send intro says that single send can be sent immediately or scheduled for a time in the future I assumed that I shouldn't set any value to this property to send the emails immediately. these are the single sends I have created using API:
The single send will be in draft mode until it is scheduled.
Specifically this endpoint needs to be hit using that Single Send id: /v3/marketing/singlesends/{sendgrid_single_send_id}/schedule
With the send_at specified as a date in the future
I'm having my first contact with Vertx's EventBus and I realized there are two ways to submit a message. Used the send or publish method. I ask: What is the practical difference between using these two methods and in what scenario do they use each one?
Both send and publish are used to send a message to an event bus address. However there are some differences between the two.
By using publish:
A message is sent to one or multiple listeners
All handlers listening against the address will be notified
No answer is expected from handlers
By using send:
A message is sent to one and only one handler registered against the event bus address.
If multiple handlers are registered, only one will be notified. The receiver will be selected by a "round-robin algorithm" as per the docs.
The receiver can answer the message, this answer can be empty or contain a response body. A response timeout can also be specified.
In practical usage, publish is quite useful to inform that an event has occured, whereas send is quite handy for asking a treatment where the response matters.
Conceptually, publish uses the publish/subscribe pattern whereas send uses the request/response pattern.
Is it possible via the Twilio REST API to retrieve the Delivery Steps (like you can see on Message Details on the Message Log)? If it is not possible via the REST API, is there a programmatic way to get it (apart from screen scraping)?
I'm using the C# Twilio NuGet package, but I can also hit the REST API directly if necessary. I didn't see Delivery Steps in documentation for either or by visually inspecting JSON results. I also cannot get the Delivery Steps in the CSV export.
Twilio developer evangelist here.
Whilst you can't get that detail from the REST API, messages in Twilio can notify you of their status as it changes.
When you send a message, just set a StatusCallback parameter and Twilio will send you an HTTP POST request when the message status changes into any of the following states: queued, failed, sent, delivered, or undelivered.
In the IPN docs there is this line:
To handle the possibility of transmission and receipt delays or failures, the IPN
message service implements a retry mechanism that resends messages at various intervals
until you acknowledge that the message has successfully been received.
IPN is sending the same notification 9 times... What do I need to send back? There are no errors in my script. If I use the IPN simulator I get the following message:
IPN sent successfully
It would seem then that the simulator can tell the message is being sent correctly but the real notifier can't?
I am using sandbox if that makes any difference?
Do I need to print anything upon receipt of the notification?
No need to worry about the multiple notification. First send back the IPN message then process it. While processing check the check that txn_id has not been previously processed. If it is already processed, it is a duplicate IPN message from the Paypal and you can ignore the processing.
For more info refer the pdf file:
IPNGuide.pdf
EDIT:
Do I need to print anything upon receipt of the notification?
No need to print anything but if you want to log the details you can log them.
From the pdf file I mentioned above(Page number 10)
Your listener must respond to each message, whether or not you intend
to do anything with it. If you do not respond, PayPal assumes that
the message was not received and resends the message. PayPal
continues to resend the message periodically until your listener sends
the correct message back, although the interval between resent
messages increases each time. The message can be resent for up to
four days. This resend algorithm can lead to situations in which
PayPal resends the IPN message while you are sending back the
original message. In this case, you should send your response again,
to cover the possibility that PayPal did not actually receive your
response the first time. You should also ensure that you do not
process the transaction associated with the message twice. IMPORTANT:
PayPal expects to receive a response to an IPN message within 30
seconds. Your listener should not perform time-consuming operations,
such as creating a process, before responding to the IPN message
See page number 19-20
Your listener software must
Wait for an HTTP post from PayPal.
Create a request that contains exactly the same IPN variables and values in the same order,
preceded with cmd=_notify-validate.
Post the request to paypal.com or sandbox.paypal.com, depending on whether you
are going live or testing your listener in the Sandbox.
Wait for a response from PayPal, which is either VERIFIED or INVALID.
If the response is VERIFIED, perform the following checks:
Confirm that the payment status is Completed. PayPal sends IPN messages for pending and denied payments as well; do not ship until the payment has cleared.
Use the transaction ID to verify that the transaction has not already been processed, which prevents duplicate transactions from being processed.
Typically, you store transaction IDs in a database so that you know you are only processing unique transactions.
Validate that the receiver’s email address is registered to you. This check provides additional protection against fraud.
Verify that the price, item description, and so on, match the transaction on your website. This check provides additional protection against fraud.
If the verified response passes the checks, take action based on the value of the txn_type
variable if it exists; otherwise, take action based on the value of the reason_code
variable.
If the response is INVALID, save the message for further investigation
You've got something going on with your IPN script that's causing it to fail a lot. This could be happening at the very bottom of the script so everything you expect to see happen does happen, but then a 500 error gets sent back to PayPal.
Have you checked your PayPal IPN History to see what it's showing there? You'll probably see lots of errors. Also, you'll want to check your web server logs to see the error that's happening when that script is hit.
It could be something that only happens with certain orders. For example, I often see people doing database updates or something similar and a name like O'Reilly breaks their script because they didn't handle the apostrophe correctly.
Looking at your web server logs should show you where the error occurred and then you can run some tests to help figure out the problem. I like to create a basic HTML form, set the action to my IPN listener, and then add hidden fields that match what I expect to get in an IPN. That way you can load it up in a browser and post various values to it directly which allows you to see the result on screen. Just keep in mind that if you're testing this way the IPN won't be verified since it didn't come from PayPal, so you'll need to make sure your code is setup to handle that accordingly.
You have to reply with an empty 200 response to indicate to PayPal the IPN was received correctly after processing the response data as
public function yourIpnHandler(){
//response verification and processing goes here
header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
}
After getting an empty 200 response, PayPal will not send more responses as it understand that response is delivered successfully to ipn-handler.