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PHP Example - Sandbox IPN response is always INVALID? #134
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I'm having the same issue with the C# code! |
I have verified that this is an issue with the IPN Simulator. The same code that was always getting INVALID in the IPN Simulator is working fine in production. |
@pp-randy |
Yes, experiencing exactly the same with the ipn simulator. I’ve checked the parameters passed from the sim and compared them to what I push back for verification and they match exactly. Have added user agent but still get invalid on every try. |
@pp-randy |
We're experiencing the same. |
30 days and still no fix for this? |
Having same problem here. Pulled my hair out for days over this. One user mentioned it works fine when live. Anyone else able to confirm this? Thanks! |
@kwdel |
Unfortunately i've not got a response from the paypal team, i've sent them a follow up email. |
Well, you guys are doing better than me. I am using the PaypalIPN.php file with the example_usage.php listener, exactly as shown, and the Sandbox IPN Simulator is giving me the "IPN was not sent, and the handshake was not verified. Review your information" response. |
Okay, changed a couple variables in the PaypalIPN.php file, and now I'm getting a good handshake, but still Invalid, as with everyone else. I had to change these to true and false, respectively, even though the public variables were correct:
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I still having the same Issue with my Python Code!... More than 1 month and no one can solve this issue? :( |
Hi guys, http://www.mywebsite.com/ControllerName Here in my case the ControllerName is IPN and snapshot code is as below. But it does not call the function Receive(), which i think it should call when the paypal sends the response back. using System; namespace WebApplication4.Controllers
//The rest of the code. Your effort will be highly appreciated. |
Muhammad, make sure you have app.UseMvc() in your Startup.cs file. Also, make sure your IPN listener is deployed to a website that supports TLS 1.2. I.e. your URL should begin with "https://", not "http://" |
Still no fix for this? I'm having the same INVALID response problem... |
@onmas59 Unfortunately I do not work at paypal, however i've escalated it to their IPN team so hopefully they are working on a fix. |
same here with php |
@daslicht Indeed. I saw someone say it operates successfully on the live servers rather than the sandbox ones, if anyone can validate this? I don't want to push something if it is not operating as desired. |
@Swedz |
Anyways, what the the purpose of a sandbox when it is not working ? |
Just tried it again, today it worked with teh sandbox ! |
IPN simulator is broken, always returning Such a shame... |
@daslicht yeah, me too. |
Just tried it and: in Sandbox mode here. |
@damianobarbati |
Same problem here using the sample code. |
I confirm this happens for me. |
Lost whole day with this. Thought It was me doing something wrong. Working on a complex project. |
i can confirm it WORKS in PRODUCTION but always returns INVALID in sandbox whether using the simulator or actual sandbox payment UPDATE |
I lost a lot of time on this issue but our company's PayPal representative helped out a lot. Here is the information that he gave me: I was able to successfully get a VERIFIED IPN by setting up IPN in the sandbox environment then placing a payment using a sandbox account. Here are the instructions:
As @muokid3 commented, you can see IPN history for both production and sandbox environments. |
If the mocked (sandboxed) version does not behave like the production version, then testing is useless because you'd be testing a behaviour not equal to the tested (and expected) one. 🤔 |
@tfoote000 |
@tfoote000
However, yesterday I did some collision tests, where 2 customees pay at teh same time, and there was only ONE time the IPN listener called at all ! weird stuff |
Still getting verification failed, even from sandbox transactions. Verifying fine in production. |
tldr; Same Problem, Same Code, Same Result - Always INVALID. Called Paypal to ask if this was still an issue and if the sandbox was working or broken specifically referencing this thread. You know what happened. Yes they could be more helpful. The problem is posting the query back to paypal for final handshake approval. Paypal detects SOMETHING different. The code posted here works in the paypal sandbox using a button created with the sandbox button factory - use sandbox buyer credentials, be logged into the sandbox, watch the log file (see end of source code, logging to a file is included, 777 the file to get started then lower permissions until it just works), press your paypal buy it now button and use the buyer sandbox credentials to checkout/pay - when completed, wait up to a minute, the IPN is posted back and it will be VERIFIED - if paypal says so. Please note the code around the variable $testPKT - I took the paypal query, prepended the magic incantation "'cmd=_notify-validate'" and then sent that back to paypal - this code is slightly different from the PayPal git repository - though much of the unused code is still here - so that someone can see the difference and then use the debugging output to try and make this better. All I guarantee is this works in the sandbox for me and returns VERIFIED when it should. Thanks to everyone in this thread for getting me this close. Here is the code:`<?php //header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); //$log -> log('('.basename(file).':'.line.')'.'**** Begin IPN Postback **', PEAR_LOG_DEBUG); // STEP 1: read POST data $raw_post_array = explode('&', $raw_post_data); foreach ($raw_post_array as $keyval)
} //exit(); // read the IPN message sent from PayPal and prepend 'cmd=_notify-validate' if (function_exists('get_magic_quotes_gpc')) foreach ($myPost as $key => $value) //$req=str_replace("%40", "@", $req); localLog('('.basename(file).':'.line.')'.'Final formed $req: '.$req); // Step 2: POST IPN data back to PayPal to validate // Be sure... for testing since returned NOT VERIFIED... //localLog('('.basename(file).':'.line.')'.'POSTING to: '.$ch); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1); //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $req); $testPKT='cmd=_notify-validate&'.$raw_post_data; curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 6); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( // In wamp-like environments that do not come bundled with root authority certificates, //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, dirname(FILE) . '/cacert.pem'); if ( !($res = curl_exec($ch)) ) $info = curl_getinfo($ch); curl_close($ch); localLog('('.basename(file).':'.line.')'.'$res: '.$res); // inspect IPN validation result and act accordingly // The IPN is verified, process it: // To loop through the &_POST array and print the NV pairs to the screen: } function localLog($arg)
} ?>` End of code |
It's always invalid for me aswell. Edit: I'm using c# |
Did you try the code which was posted just above your comment? Were you logged into your developer sandbox account when you tried to complete a sandbox transaction and were you using one of the buyer accounts in your sandbox account? Did you watch your server error log to see if there was any issue with the SSL? Finally did you tail the postback.log file that my code dumps? Don't give up. |
I have same issue, when I use curd with php, the response always is "INVALID". I tried with post man, the response is same, always is "INVALID" |
SANDBOX mock IPN calls can't be verified. Use a real Sandbox transaction. BTW the legacy API is deprecated, the ReST API is its successor. |
Pham, Use the IPN simulator in the sandbox just to get your code running as a postback endpoint on your server for paypal to postback to then, after your code is running and you are writing to your database all the essential items which the IPN simulator posted to you - and you added sufficient debugging to write the raw data paypal sends to you to a log file - use the paypal sandbox to test your postback code by creating a 'real' test transaction in the sandbox environment. Using PayPal's sandbox and developer portal can be a bit confusing here is my crib sheet: paypal.com is the production environment where you get paid - you knew this :) sandbox.paypal.com is the sandbox of paypal.com - you can fake it and you don't get paid but the IPN postback works just like the real production environment - get it working here and change all the urls to the live environment and life will be sweet for you. I promise! developer.paypal.com is where you log in with your REAL paypal credentials that you use on the live site and you setup FAKE credentials (user name and passwords) to use against the sandbox.paypal.com during testing - this can be a bit confusing but just work through it and ask questions - also be sure to observe closely anytime you are testing, or using paypal for real, to watch what credentials your browser autofills - I've tried logging into paypal with sandbox credentials and vice versa because the browser autofilled the popup form and I was busy 'testing' :) I have this working and you can as well if you start with the code posted above. If you need more help please post again to this thread. |
Few days ago I started my first project with PayPal IPN. I think I tested everything but I am still getting INVALID status... I tested code from this repo, code from PayPal website and other samples from Internet. It's impossible. Anyone can help me with that? How can I try my code? `<?php $raw_post_data = file_get_contents('php://input'); // Step 2: POST IPN data back to PayPal to validate if ( !($res = curl_exec($ch)) ) { if (strcmp ($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {
} else if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) { |
related: Probably those example help somehow/ |
Limera2n, How are you testing? The IPN Simulator? IPN Simulator will ALWAYS return INVALID to your IPN listener code - it is only useful to get your code running - but will always be INVALID. IPN Simulator is only a shortcut for superficial testing and debugging - so you don't have to go through the long pain of doing a 'real test' transaction in the sandbox. If you are working in the sandbox.paypal and have already created test credentials in developer.paypal then, when you use a valid test sandbox credential against sandbox.paypal - I promise you the sandbox will return VALID to your IPN listener. If you need more assistance please followup to this thread :) Rich |
Membiblio thank you very much! I was trying to get validation using IPN Simulator. Now I created sandbox accounts, I generated paypal button which target my handler and it works :) Thanks! |
I have created a PR to update the documentation to reflect the changes here: |
Hey guys if your having trouble with testing the ipn yo need to change the following two variables in the PaypalIPN.php file in the class PaypalIPN the first two variables
make sure to set these variables back when going to production.. Hope this solves your problems!!! |
As per #134 it seems that calls from the IPN simulator can no longer be validated, however calls from sandbox accounts work correctly. This PR updates the documentation to reflect that.
Guys. Thanks for this thread. The difference between the handshakes is the environment on which you are trying to verify. Ensure that you are doing the verification on the correct environment: Sandbox or Production. Look for this like: // Step 2: POST IPN data back to PayPal to validate That function curl_init is where you set the IPN verification url. It should be: https://ipnpb.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr for sandbox and https://ipnpb.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr for production. Cheers. Sir Brian from www.paymentprocessor-script.com |
The Sandbox IPN Simulator should be revised to give some hint that the IPN URI must start with HTTPS:. Starting with "http:" or "www" will always fail with no good error message. I wish I could rewrite the simulator a bit. |
Was hassling with this completely horrible BS that is horribly disgraceful to paypal for the past few days. Confirmed today on this page that it was paypal's IDIOTIC, greedy outsourcing to india (and importing employees on h1b) that was THE PROBLEM. The code I wrote was FULLY FUNCTIONAL!!! Honestly disgusting how vile and despicable paypal seems. OBVIOUSLY paypal SHOULD have hired WESTERN SOFTWARE ENGINEERS to write the SDK and WESTERN architects to design the IPN simulator and sandbox system. If paypal wants to save some cash on employees, lower the paypal execs' salaries!!! Don't outsource the software!!! What a completely ridiculous MESS!!! Maybe going to use Square instead of that IPN disaster. |
01GOD, blaming Indian engineers is just plain racist. Yes, PayPal is primarily motivated by profits and doesn't much care about fixing its bugs, like many other big companies in the Western world, but that gives you no excuse to be racist about it and blame Indians. Shame on you. |
Actually india isn't a "race. So it can't be "racist" to say that the culture of society in india has caused india to become notorious for producing horribly low quality, buggy code. Actually it is BLATANTLY IGNORANT to call india a "race". So listen ignorant sellout, save the cuck lines for scoring brownie points elsewhere if really into promoting the production of crapware. By the way, does israel pay david263 to post that sort of ignorant BS as a RIDICULOUS attempt to "shame" anybody speaking TRUTH? Did israel pay david263 to be a traitor to his country of citizenship or is he from israel? Speaking on behalf of all the proper perfectionist engineers and scientists in the World that care about FUNCTIONALITY more than IGNORANT use of emotional trigger words used by ignorant drones of israel as part of its attempt to destroy Western society, "QUALITY CODE AND FUNCTIONAL SOFTWARE AND FUNCTIONAL SYSTEMS ARE MUCH, MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN CODDLING A SOFT INVASION THAT CARES MUCH MORE ABOUT CASHING IN FAST THAN MAKING ANYTHING THAT ACTUALLY FUNCTIONS PROPERLY!!!" So if david623 wants to spread the sort of ignorant BS he posted, go do that in israel and shame some non-semitic israelis for committing genocide against semitic Palestinians!!! (Because "semitic" ACTUALLY means "arab") Honestly sad how much some have tried to use "shaming" In an attempt to exploit TRULY NOBLE WESTERN SOCIETY. Thankfully anybody intelligent can see right through that sort of israeli trickery. |
The problem is not India or Paypal. The real problem is with the developer who cannot understand a bug caused by someone else because he literally wants to copy paste everything without reasoning. It is very clear that the IPN response will always be INVALID if sandbox is false. So, set true if on sandbox. That way, it will refer right source (url). |
Oh? So trying to blame 3rd parties for paypal's problems caused by outsourcing? That is a new low. Not surprised though. Had already set both of those params listed on the thread before posting. |
and it worked. Right? |
I have copied the exact files from PHP examples and then using my PayPal developer sandbox tested the IPN listener (the one in "example_usage.php")
The IPN ALWAYS return INVALID, no matter what I try.
Is there anything required except the example code, so the PayPal may return VERIFIED when testing?
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