By all means, go ahead. Don't hesitate to put them in touch with me if needed.
Philippe On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) <ikai.l+gro...@google.com> wrote: > Would you mind if I passed this feedback along to their team? Paypal has > been pretty helpful to us in the past when we've had issues. > > -- > Ikai Lan > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine > Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine > > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Philippe Beaudoin > <philippe.beaud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> PayPal production API server seems faster, plus it looks like I get my >> full 10s of URLFetch on the deployed version (I definitely don't get >> them in the development server). For the moment our solution is "log >> and see", That is, we log/email everytime a URLFetch timeout occurs on >> the PayPal request and look into the issue manually, removing double >> billings and/or contacting the client. >> >> If this happens too often then my alternate solution would be to: >> - Start a recurring payment with PayPal with a 0.01$ payment and a >> very far first payment date. >> - Get the ProfileId back from paypal (or a timeout, in which case we >> retry). >> - Once we have the ProfileID we modify the PayPal profile to the real >> amout and the real payment date. >> - Manually remove the leftover 0.01$ profile once in a while. >> >> What would be really needed is for paypal to allow us to request only >> a ProfileId without creating a payment profile, but I don't see this >> anywhere in their API. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Philippe >> >> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Ikai Lan (Google) >> <ikai.l+gro...@google.com> wrote: >> > What are your solutions? I've heard that the Paypal sandbox is slower, >> > but >> > the production API server is relatively fast. Is this your experience? >> > >> > -- >> > Ikai Lan >> > Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine >> > Blogger: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com >> > Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine >> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Philippe Beaudoin >> > <philippe.beaud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> I recently integrated a PayPal Website Payments Pro account with our >> >> AppEngine app, using recurring profile for subscriptions. An issue I >> >> have is >> >> that I can sometime hit the 10s limit of URLFetch which lead to >> >> recurring >> >> profiles being registered over at PayPal but no way for my AppEngine >> >> app to >> >> know about them. This in turn can lead to double billing. >> >> Were you guys able to solve that problem elegantly? (My solutions are a >> >> bit hacky.) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Philippe >> >> >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> >> Groups >> >> "Google App Engine" group. >> >> To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> >> For more options, visit this group at >> >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups >> > "Google App Engine" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Google App Engine" group. >> To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
