PayPal IPN is messing around today

Richelo Killian · 10-14-2009, 06:13 AM

If you use PayPal IPN be aware they are currently having issues.

If you rely on it to make purchases available, you're going to have issues!

Been a couple of hours, and no word on a fix yet.

designfuschion · 10-14-2009, 06:50 AM

That explains a stuff up with a purchase i made earlier tonight.

Steven Wagenheim · 10-14-2009, 06:52 AM

Yeah, they're not coming through today...oh joy!

Troy Wray · 10-14-2009, 07:25 AM

Glad I found this. My last IPN was 24 hours ago, yet the IPN history in my paypal account lists all the IPNs and says they had a status of 200.

I absolutely know nothing on my side has changed and was starting to pull my hair out.

MikeLantz · 10-14-2009, 08:42 AM

Hey all,

Just an update on my end, since IPN being down has meant that WSO Pro deliveries were not going on. This affected 25 purchases overnight (between midnight and 6am PDT).

As of now, all deliveries have been made, and the problem is solved on my end.

This has been a huge issue, as it has affected MANY paypal systems, including e-junkie.

There is a workaround, though, as found here: IPNs still failing after maintenance window? - Instant Payment Notification (IPN) - PayPal Developer Community

Code:

Hi guys,
 
We were experiencing the same problems and replaced
 
 = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, , , 30);
 
by
 
 = fsockopen ('ssl://www.paypal.com', 443, , , 30);
 
which seems to have done the trick.

So, if you have control of your system, doing that should fix it, as long as your server has SSL enabled. If not, you are still out of luck for awhile.

Mike

Johnny Slater · 10-14-2009, 01:31 PM

Is this problem only affecting IPN scripts that use fsock or are scripts using curl having problems as well?

Kevin Williams · 10-14-2009, 01:55 PM

I believe E-junkie is now using the workaround - at least that's what I got from their forums.

10-14-2009, 06:13 AM	#1
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10-14-2009, 08:42 AM	#5
MikeLantz www.warriorplus.com War Room Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Las Vegas Posts: 1,819 Blog Entries: 4 Thanks: 13 Thanked 308 Times in 103 Posts Social Networking	Re: PayPal IPN is messing around today Hey all, Just an update on my end, since IPN being down has meant that WSO Pro deliveries were not going on. This affected 25 purchases overnight (between midnight and 6am PDT). As of now, all deliveries have been made, and the problem is solved on my end. This has been a huge issue, as it has affected MANY paypal systems, including e-junkie. There is a workaround, though, as found here: IPNs still failing after maintenance window? - Instant Payment Notification (IPN) - PayPal Developer Community Code: Hi guys, We were experiencing the same problems and replaced = fsockopen ('www.paypal.com', 80, , , 30); by = fsockopen ('ssl://www.paypal.com', 443, , , 30); which seems to have done the trick. So, if you have control of your system, doing that should fix it, as long as your server has SSL enabled. If not, you are still out of luck for awhile. Mike
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