Re: [google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-07 Thread Robert Avram
beautiful! Thanks! You're awesome. Do you know if the SDK is threadsafe though? On Friday, January 3, 2014 5:47:52 PM UTC-8, Vinny P wrote: On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Robert Avram robert...@gmail.comjavascript: wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to process payments using paypal

Re: [google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-07 Thread Doug Anderson
The paypal rest api involves receiving credit cards on the server which means they are potentially in logs etc (that with App Engine you don't control). This complicates PCI compliance: *Q: To whom does PCI apply?* *A: *PCI applies to ALL organizations or merchants, regardless of size or

Re: [google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-07 Thread Vinny P
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Robert Avram robert.av...@gmail.com wrote: beautiful! Thanks! You're awesome. Do you know if the SDK is threadsafe though? On Friday, January 3, 2014 5:47:52 PM UTC-8, Vinny P wrote: You can do this (at the bottom of your code): *if payment.create():* * #

Re: [google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-06 Thread Andreas Schmid
paypal has a rest api and you don’t need to redirect the customers to paypal. but paypal is a pain to deal with in any case… and customer service is very bad. i believe you need to be PCI compliant only if you store the credit card data, not if you just process the api call on server side.

Re: [google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-06 Thread Kaan Soral
should be that way but the page and request has to be https/secure as far as I remember On Monday, January 6, 2014 10:47:02 PM UTC+2, aschmid wrote: paypal has a rest api and you don’t need to redirect the customers to paypal. but paypal is a pain to deal with in any case… and customer

[google-appengine] Processing payments using Paypal, python SDK

2014-01-03 Thread Robert Avram
I'm trying to figure out how to process payments using paypal python sdk and google app engine. the following code seems to work, but I can't figure out, based on the SDK, how to handle the exceptions (wrong credit card number etc). I would like the customer to be able to see the error. I would