Adventures in software
January 9, 2011
When paypal does an IPN POST for subscriptions, you'll actually get two different POST calls. One of these indicates that a new subscription has been taken out, the second indicates that a payment has been made.
The example values below are taken from Django code - a u prefix on …
January 9, 2011
Here's some code to confirm a PayPal IPN using Django
def _request_confirm(request): """ Confirm IPN with paypal """ lConfirm = "/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_notify-validate&" lConfirm += request.META['QUERY_STRING'] lConnection = httplib.HTTPSConnection(settings.PAYPAL_CONFIRM_URL) lHeaders = {"Host" : settings.PAYPAL_CONFIRM_URL …
I'm Tim Sawyer. I'm a software architect. I usually end up writing software in my spare time too, though I can also be found playing percussion and taking photos.
