Breaks WooCommerce Force Downloads PayPal generated return URL

  • Resolved Pat K

    (@blackcapdesign)


    3 years, 11 months ago

    Great plugin – thanks! BUT I encountered a problem today. While testing a site that uses WooCommerce for digital downloads, upon successful payment at PayPal, the return URL was consistently resolving to a HTTP ERROR 403 “You don’t have the user rights to view this page”.

    I suspect the URL contains a combination of characters that BBQ has flagged as malicious and has blocked access.

    This is only happening for digital downloads (Force Downloads is turned on in Woocommerce); there is no 403 error when purchasing physical products.

    Deactivating BBQ resolved the problem.

    This is an example of a return URL that generated the 403 error (with identifying info removed; inserted as CODE since it’s not a working URL): https://example.com/bookshop/checkout/order-received/999/?key=wc_order_9cujW46lgwCM7&utm_nooverride=1&amt=1.05&cc=CAD&cm=%7B%22order_id%22%3A1032%2C%22order_key%22%3A%22wc_order_9cujW46lgwCM7%22%7D&st=Completed&tx=08P857552F208630H

    Just a heads up for others who might wrestling with this problem.

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  • Plugin Author Jeff Starr

    (@specialk)

    Thanks for reporting, and the great detailed infos very helpful.

    I confirm this bug and will push out an update that resolves it. Should be available within the hour.

    Thank you @blackcapdesign.

    Thread Starter Pat K

    (@blackcapdesign)

    Wow! That was fast! I just figured I wouldn’t be able to use BBQ with WC and digital downloads, so this is excellent news.

    Thanks!

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