Posted by harvey on 05/22/07 12:22

Does this problem affect everyone using Paypal & other services ?

I've now managed to replicate this on my test site and believe it may
well affect me but I have yet to find a solution. Nothing suggested so
far can solve this.

I use an ISP and have user access and execution rights but can't modify
either PHP.INI or apache startup files. (shared access means I'm not
allowed to re-start - obviously)

I have a site that communicates with paypal that sells data files
but I can't guarantee people will type in the WWW when they enter the
site (at whatever page) so they could start their session either with or
without it.

So I have a dilema - the required return address from paypal can either
include or exclude the WWW portion. It can't do both.

This means if there is a missmatch the sales transaction will fail.
Even worse - there is no way to identify that this was the cause
creating random transaction failures potentially (statistically over
time) of 50%

This is going to cost me money and I suspect everyone else using
any service such as this will suffer too.

This obviously isn't a minor problem.

If anyone can help - an idiots guide would be welcome ;-)

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