Not getting VERIFIED message

  • Resolved ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)


    7 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    I am using Version 1.1.0

    I am using Paypal IPN simulator to send a simulated transaction to the plugin.

    I do get the initial transaction message in the plugin.

    According to:
    https://developer.paypal.com/docs/classic/ipn/integration-guide/IPNSimulator/

    If your IPN listener receives the test message, you know the listener is properly installed on your web server. If your listener responds correctly to such a message, your listener should next receive a VERIFIED response message.

    I am not seeing the VERIFIED response message in the plugin.

    I went to your page: PayPal IPN Not Working? Here’s How to Test and Troubleshoot – and under Step 2 – PayPal IPN Simulator, it says:

    PayPal provides their IPN simulator which is essentially the same thing we put together in step 1 here. The only difference is that this time the data is coming from PayPal’s sandbox server. As such, it will validate correctly with PayPal and the IPN would come back as verified if you have your IPN script configured correctly, so that’s a good thing to test for at this point. Just remember that your IPN script needs to validate against PayPal’s sandbox at this point, not their live server, so update your script accordingly.

    I do not see a way to update a script accordingly – sorry if I misunderstand, but i am under the impression I do not need to write a script to support the plugin – I do not see a way to do that for the plugin (is there a setting for this) and if I could, I have no idea how to write this script, what it should do, etc.

    Paypal also says:

    You have to change the code in your listener to post your response to the Sandbox URL at https://ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr, instead of the live URL https://ipnpb.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr.

    Is there a way to do this in the plugin? I do not see a field for this under Settings……

    Please help. Thanks ahead of time ??

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  • Thread Starter ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)

    After posting my above issue, I realized maybe you have an API function for this.

    FYI I went to several pages on your site to look for this and got:

    Server not found

    Firefox can’t find the server at https://www.angelleye.com.

    This was at Aug 17 at 5:24 pm EST.

    Seems your site’s server is having some issues – mine just went thru a 4 day DDOS attack…..

    Plugin Contributor angelleye

    (@angelleye)

    I’m sorry for the delay responding.

    I haven’t noticed any problems with our site, and haven’t had any other reports of it. Is it still giving you problems now or is it loading fine? It’s possible our firewall blocked your IP for some reason.

    As for the VERIFIED message, that gets added into $posted[‘IPN_status’] that the plugin provides. $posted basically consists of $_POST plus a few additional value pairs we add to it.

    So are you saying that $posted[‘IPN_status’] is giving you an actual Invalid value?

    Thread Starter ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)

    Hi, thanks for getting back to me. PS no need to apologize – you are making a great plugin available, and providing great, free support, and you certainly don’t owe anyone a super fast response on top of everything….

    Sorry to concern you about your site. From my computer I could not reach it. I thought it could be my DNS servers so I thought I would get your site’s IP address and type that into my browser’s address bar. Using:
    https://www.site24x7.com/find-ip-address-of-web-site.html
    I get:

    S. No.
    Domain Name
    IP Address

    https://www.angelleye.com.
    ngelleye.com./64.207.177.33

    If I go to 64.207.177.33 in my browser I get:

    If you are the owner of this website, please contact your hosting provider: [email protected]

    It is possible you have reached this page because:
    The IP address has changed.

    The IP address for this domain may have changed recently. Check your DNS settings to verify that the domain is set up correctly. It may take 8-24 hours for DNS changes to propagate. It may be possible to restore access to this site by following these instructions for clearing your dns cache.
    There has been a server misconfiguration.

    You must verify that your hosting provider has the correct IP address configured for your Apache settings and DNS records. A restart of Apache may be required for new settings to take affect.

    The site may have moved to a different server.

    Which is very weird because now I CAN reach your domain at https://www.angelleye.com.

    Also I put your site in uptimerobot.com to monitor it and rest assured your site has NOT been down – it is some weird thing on my end…….

    Thread Starter ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)

    Ok, on to the relevant stuff:

    Thanks very much for explaining more about where the Verified message is posted.

    I checked for the VERIFIED tag in the $posted[‘IPN_status’] in the IPN that your plugin has in its record, and it is there.

    So your plugin was and is working great and I misunderstood. Sorry about that.

    I thought the handshaking goes like:

    1) Paypal sends an IPN to your plugin
    2) Your plugin records this and shows it in the record of IPN’s
    3) Your plugin sends a response to the IPN
    4) Paypal sends a VERIFIED IPN to your plugin
    5) Your plugin shows a SECOND message with VERIFIED in its record of IPN’s

    I thought this because Paypal’s documentation says that Paypal sends a second verified message and so that would show as a second message in your plugin’s record of IPN’s…

    But now I think it is:

    1) Paypal sends an IPN to your plugin
    2) Your plugin sends a response to the IPN
    3) Paypal sends a VERIFIED IPN to your plugin
    4) Your plugin shows a first and final message with VERIFIED in its record of IPN’s

    Could you confirm this is correct?

    Thread Starter ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)

    There is one other issue in my initial message but I dont think I explained it well – I will post it as a separate issue….

    Plugin Contributor angelleye

    (@angelleye)

    Yes, your second flow is correct. The plugin does the verification and then saves the IPN record with the IPN_status value set accordingly.

    Thread Starter ironfish2

    (@ironfish2)

    Thanks for the great support!!!

    I just left a review….

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