Denny, you don't need to deal with certs now, they implemented a "signature" which you get from your PayPal developer admin (when you create a paypal developer account) and you include that signature in the SOAP header. It's new as of March 2006 I think.
Indeed, it looks like you can just post the SOAP request, and they have a "sandbox" server where you do all your testing. It's pretty sweet, you can set up fake customer and business accounts to do the testing, then when you're ready you just point the http call to the production server instead of the sandbox, change your username/password/signature, and you're ready to go. I've just started digging into it but it looks like it won't be too hard to get it all up and running. -- Josh ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denny Valliant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 4:27 PM Subject: Re: PayPal API/SOAP > Wow, didn't even know you could do that. > > So you don't need the verisign.jar or the certs file then? > You just post the SOAP request to the test-payflow server? > > Sounds more maintainable than having to have .jars and such. > > I'm not really up to speed on SOAP either, so apologies if it's obvious. > :D > > On 6/5/06, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Denny, >> >> I'm "rolling my own", not using .jar or a CFX. Just copying the SOAP >> headers/body and wrapping it with <cfxml>, then posting using cfhttp. So >> far so good, I got a success acknowledgement with one of the methods >> (SetExpressCheckout). I found a great example page here: >> >> http://paypaltech.com/Dave/api_sourcebook/html/example_SOAP.html >> >> The PayPal docs kind of suck so the above link really helped me out. >> >> -- Josh >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Denny Valliant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com> >> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2006 3:19 PM >> Subject: Re: PayPal API/SOAP >> >> >> > Are you using the CFX tag, or the java based .jar? >> > >> > I wrote a wrapper for the .jar, don't know about that tag, I had >> troubles >> > getting it going, back when I tried it a couple years ago. >> > >> > If I can help I'll try, but I don't think I'm doing SOAP or whatever - >> > just >> > using the verisign.var. >> > :D >> > >> > On 6/5/06, Josh Nathanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hello all, >> >> >> >> If anyone has experience working with PayPal API maybe you can help. >> >> >> >> It involves generating a SOAP request as an XML object (not sure if I >> >> have >> >> that technically correct) which is posted to the Paypal >> server. However, >> >> I >> >> can't find anywhere how to post the XML object - is it a form >> >> variable, >> >> url >> >> variable? If so what is the name of the variable? I think I've got >> the >> >> XML/SOAP creation handled but I just can't figure out how to post >> >> it. Seems >> >> like that would be at the top of the documentation but I can't find it >> >> anywhere. Thanks for any help. >> >> >> >> -- Josh >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:242501 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
