Post/Get Method Paypal Recommendation

  • Resolved Chris

    (@weazel91)


    8 years ago

    Hi Malcolm,

    I am currently having an issue with Paypal and redirection and a “rogue” link on their checkout page that takes to our cancelled page. Within these discussions one of their Merchant Technical Support team has said the following:

    Hello Chris,

    Thanks for your help.

    During my test to get the variable, I have seen that your script does the redirection by sending the variable to PayPal using the GET method. It is not recommended to do that as PayPal recommend the use of POST method to send variables.

    However this should not be the reason of the issue, I would advise you to change this integration in order to avoid any potential issue in the future (it is possible that PayPal plan to block all variable sent by GET request in the future)

    I just want to make you aware of this just now incase you don’t know or haven’t heard of this yet?

    Many thanks again for all the hard work!
    Chris

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  • Plugin Author Malcolm

    (@malcolm-oph)

    8 years ago

    Thanks for the heads up Chris …. I wasn’t aware of any plans to impose POST only redirects.

    Currently StageShow uses a redirect in an HTML header to go to PayPal and (as far as I know) this can only do an HTML GET to the new URL. There are solutions, none of them very elegant, so I’ll see which I prefer and add them into StageShow.

    Thread Starter Chris

    (@weazel91)

    8 years ago

    Hi Malcolm,

    No worries and thanks again.

    Chris

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