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PayPal IPN is messing around today

by Richelo Killian
6 replies
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.
#ipn #messing #paypal #today
  • Profile picture of the author designfuschion
    That explains a stuff up with a purchase i made earlier tonight.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
      Yeah, they're not coming through today...oh joy!
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      • Profile picture of the author Troy Wray
        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.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeLantz
    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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  • Profile picture of the author Johnny Slater
    Is this problem only affecting IPN scripts that use fsock or are scripts using curl having problems as well?
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin Williams
    I believe E-junkie is now using the workaround - at least that's what I got from their forums.
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