On 04/05/2012 04:05, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/3/12 9:41 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
See bug reports 3157 and 8305.
:) I'd seen Jeanne's but I didn't know you'd put your foot in too.
I'd like to see the above list added as well but I'm afraid RR would take away
our access.
Be careful what you
On May 7, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
If a developer doesn't descends into a crazed sputtering rage from time to
time, they probably should not be developing software. ;-)
PROGRAM, tr.v. To engage in a pastime similar to banging one's head
against a wall, but with fewer
If a developer doesn't descends into a crazed sputtering rage from time to
time, they probably should not be developing software. ;-)
Bob
On May 4, 2012, at 7:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
7. This list is the absolute best of all lists, and LiveCoders are the most
generous people anywhere,
I wrote:
I learned a lot from this exercise:
1. PayPal does not charge a fee on five-cent sales.
Just to set the record straight, it isn't technically true. I just
looked at my PayPal account and saw that I'd misunderstood the data that
was coming into my CGI. PayPal took your whole five
Listers,
There was an error in the PayPal IPN script I posted on my web page.
Some HTML entities were missing, so the script got garbled when viewed
on the web site. If you try to run it, LiveCode will abort and throw a
server error. The problem is in the .zip file I provided too, since I
How to thank you for this inestimable contribution without considering the
human generosity behind your gesture which goes far beyond the workplace. I'm
glad LiveCode is the incredible community that we know because all those human
being shared values that civilized creation software and
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Jacqueline wrote :
2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer.
Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least stout)
In the true spirit of sharing on this forum,
although it may be considered not very LiveCode,
I pass on a recipe for Stew made with
On 5/5/12 6:39 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Jacqueline wrote :
2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer.
Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least stout)
I don't drink beer, and I guess it shows. To me, stout and beer and ale
are all
I don't get to answer very often on this list, so I'm glad my contribution
provided the last puzzle piece.
Thanks for the write up. I bookmarked it in case I ever need it.
Greetz from Belgium
Dirk Cleenwerck
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
I've
Hi Jacqueline,
Worked like a charm.
I didn't need a recipe for beef stew, 'cos
we have Irish Stew, made with Guinness.
But it was fun to give you a hand !
When downloading the pdf file, I noticed
a %20 (a blank) in the pdf file name
Was that deliberate ? Of course, it worked
anyway.
I am now
On 5/4/12 6:12 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi Jacqueline,
Worked like a charm.
I didn't need a recipe for beef stew, 'cos
we have Irish Stew, made with Guinness.
You can put Guiness into the stew. I don't know how it would taste, but
you can do it. :)
When downloading the pdf file, I
I've posted an article on my website that explains how I made PayPal IPN
work with LiveCode CGIs:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgipaypal/index.html
It's also linked at my main Resources page with everything else. I could
not have done this without all your help, so I'm giving back what's
I got my IPN solution working by using a simple PHP script which takes
the IPN data and stores it out to a file with a unique filename. A LC
script then scans for these files and does what it needs to with the data.
This was only working in the simulator until I discovered that the
GoDaddy
I've set up a test page with my working PayPal button and LiveCode CGI
script. I'm hoping some of you will help me test it. I'd especially like
at least one non-US person to try it, because I want to know how the
currency conversion works.
PayPal suggests we check the amount paid to make sure
Do you really think a mere recipe is enough? After looking at the photo, it
seems we should hold out for a sample of the real thing. ;-) just kidding, of
course
On May 3, 2012, at 12:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I've set up a test page with my working PayPal button and LiveCode CGI
script.
Was tempted to choose Bill Me Later -- extend payments over 6 months but
wasn't sure if that would fly.
Just received the download -- appeared to take about 15 min or so.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design
Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote:
I've set up a test
On 5/3/12 1:07 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Do you really think a mere recipe is enough? After looking at the
photo, it seems we should hold out for a sample of the real thing.
;-)just kidding, of course
Well, not only that, you're a victim of bait and switch. That isn't even
a picture of
Recently, I wrote:
Just received the download -- appeared to take about 15 min or so.
By received the download I meant the download email, not the time required
to download the PDF...
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design
Mine came a bit quicker--as in a minute or two after I finished paying via
PayPal. Hope this helps you out, Jacque.
On May 3, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, I wrote:
Just received the download -- appeared to take about 15 min or so.
By received the download I meant the
On 5/3/12 1:26 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, I wrote:
Just received the download -- appeared to take about 15 min or so.
By received the download I meant the download email, not the time required
to download the PDF...
I wondered. :) PayPal is sending me notifications a little late too,
And mine came almost immediately, too.
Devin
On May 3, 2012, at 12:30 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Mine came a bit quicker--as in a minute or two after I finished paying via
PayPal. Hope this helps you out, Jacque.
On May 3, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
Recently, I
On 5/3/12 1:30 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote:
Mine came a bit quicker--as in a minute or two after I finished
paying via PayPal. Hope this helps you out, Jacque.
It does, and thank you so much. I've had a couple of non-US orders now
too, and it looks like all currency is converted in the
Hi Jaque, My download email came through immediately - UK, via a Google Apps
address - if that is important(?)
I was charged £0.04 at a 1:1.25 UKP:USD exchange rate.
Good luck with the finishing touches.
Best,
Keith..
On 3 May 2012, at 19:48, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/3/12 1:30 PM, Marian
Hi Jacque,
Well I coudn't resist a good beef stew recipe so I went ahead and purchased
even though I'm in the USA.
The PayPal transaction email was timed at 11:53am (PDT) and your
confirmation email had the same timestamp so no delay here.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Thu, May
On 5/3/12 2:09 PM, Keith Clarke wrote:
Hi Jaque, My download email came through immediately - UK, via a
Google Apps address - if that is important(?)
I'm not sure why some mail is delayed. My logs show instant response,
but sometimes my mail server gets slow. When Scott mentioned a delay I
On 5/3/12 2:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Hi Jacque,
Well I coudn't resist a good beef stew recipe so I went ahead and purchased
even though I'm in the USA.
I shouda charged ten cents.
The PayPal transaction email was timed at 11:53am (PDT) and your
confirmation email had the same timestamp
I'm gonna try your recipe Jacque (even though it doesn't contain Guinness!)
In the spirit of not measuring, I'd like to suggest the following new
keywords in LC:
- split tVar by whateverworks
- if tvar IsSomethingCloseTo abc then
- send mouseUp to button xyz AtSomePointInTime
- get
I tested it from the Seattle/Tacoma area and it worked great.
The email was sent back right away.
-=JB=-
On May 3, 2012, at 10:49 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I've set up a test page with my working PayPal button and LiveCode CGI
script. I'm hoping some of you will help me test it. I'd
On May 3, 2012, at 6:28 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
- split tVar by whateverworks
- if tvar IsSomethingCloseTo abc then
- send mouseUp to button xyz AtSomePointInTime
- get SomeSortOfOffset(tvar,tText)
- put Optionally xyz into tVar
2 + 2 = 5, for sufficiently large values of 2.
Pete-
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 3:28:47 PM, you wrote:
I'm gonna try your recipe Jacque (even though it doesn't contain Guinness!)
In the spirit of not measuring, I'd like to suggest the following new
keywords in LC:
- split tVar by whateverworks
- if tvar IsSomethingCloseTo abc then
On 5/3/12 9:41 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Pete-
Thursday, May 3, 2012, 3:28:47 PM, you wrote:
I'm gonna try your recipe Jacque (even though it doesn't contain Guinness!)
In the spirit of not measuring, I'd like to suggest the following new
keywords in LC:
- split tVar by whateverworks
-
Good morning,
Does this help.
http://oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch03_07.html
Dirk Cleenwerck
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 6:25 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
On 5/1/12 8:55 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Guys and Gals,
You may want to check
Any ideas why this would not put this is just a test into the file
dump.txt?
PayPal is happy with the script. It indicates it has received the
correct response when it calls this PHP script.
The script is located in my Documents folder on my (dedicated OSX) server.
I can't set that folder to
When you guys get through all this, it would be great if you could share all
you've learned in one place, maybe even write up an article for the Rev
newsletter. It's great the way this community solves problems cooperatively. It
restores my admittedly shaken faith in the human race. :-)
Bob
On 5/2/12 11:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
When you guys get through all this, it would be great if you could
share all you've learned in one place, maybe even write up an article
for the Rev newsletter. It's great the way this community solves
problems cooperatively. It restores my admittedly
Hi Jaqueline,
Am 02.05.2012 um 18:42 schrieb J. Landman Gay:
On 5/2/12 11:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
When you guys get through all this, it would be great if you could
share all you've learned in one place, maybe even write up an article
for the Rev newsletter. It's great the way this
On 5/2/12 4:54 AM, dirk cleenwerck wrote:
Good morning,
Does this help.
http://oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch03_07.html
Yes! Yes it does!! Excitement, happiness, joy joy!
In the simulator at least, this WORKS!!!:
on startup
read from stdin until empty
put it into tOrderData
LOG
Ouch!
On May 2, 2012, at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/2/12 11:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
When you guys get through all this, it would be great if you could
share all you've learned in one place, maybe even write up an article
for the Rev newsletter. It's great the way this community
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/2/12 4:54 AM, dirk cleenwerck wrote:
Good morning,
Does this help.
http://oreilly.com/openbook/cgi/ch03_07.html
Yes! Yes it does!! Excitement, happiness, joy joy!
In the simulator at least, this WORKS!!!:
on startup
read from stdin until empty
put it
On 5/2/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Ah, so it was a header issue after all.
You're justified if you want to gloat now. I'm sorry I sniped at you. If
it helps, you weren't the only one. The Husband hid in the basement.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
On 5/2/12 11:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Ouch!
:) I'll post something once I'm sure the real page works. It's been a
long, hard journey. I've decided I hate web servers.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software |
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/2/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Ah, so it was a header issue after all.
You're justified if you want to gloat now. I'm sorry I sniped at you. If
it helps, you weren't the only one. The Husband hid in the basement.
I had the luxury of being half a continent
It's awesome you got through this. FTR these are some of the hardest kinds of
problems to solve. Your pain will be other's gain. :-)
Bob
On May 2, 2012, at 10:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/2/12 11:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Ouch!
:) I'll post something once I'm sure the real page
On 5/2/12 12:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/2/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Ah, so it was a header issue after all.
You're justified if you want to gloat now. I'm sorry I sniped at you. If
it helps, you weren't the only one. The Husband hid in the basement.
I
Congrats on working through all this.
Slightly off topic but related. I assume you're doing this to send out
license codes or something similar. Some time ago, I had a need to
automatically react to someone purchasing one or more mp3 music files.
This is way before I even knew about LiveCode
On 5/2/12 12:56 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Congrats on working through all this.
Slightly off topic but related. I assume you're doing this to send out
license codes or something similar.
Right, I'm trying to automate AirLaunch sales from my web site. Zygodact
makes the serial keys and I've
Maybe there's a Thunderbird plugin that would help. The other way might be
if there's some way of saving filtered messages to a text file in a
specific folder, then setting the folder options to run a script each time
a new message turns up. When I get some time, I plan to look into that for
use
Totally stuck on using PayPal's IPN process with LC. It doesn't appear
that there is any way to have PayPal send the IPN data to a LC cgi
script. Doesn't look like IPN supports cgi.
I'd be very happy to have a simple PHP listener script on my server
which accepts the initial IPN data and
On 5/1/12 9:36 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
Totally stuck on using PayPal's IPN process with LC. It doesn't appear
that there is any way to have PayPal send the IPN data to a LC cgi
script. Doesn't look like IPN supports cgi.
It does, I've got the data coming in. The only issue I have is that
Great! That seems to work.
Thank you.
Richard
On 5/1/2012 12:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/1/12 9:36 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
Totally stuck on using PayPal's IPN process with LC. It doesn't appear
that there is any way to have PayPal send the IPN data to a LC cgi
script. Doesn't look
Jacque,
Did you try what occurs in modifying your code in the following way :
on startup
if $REQUEST_METHOD = POST then -- this is the only kind PayPal sends
start using stack liburl
read from stdin until empty
put it into tOrderData
if tOrderData is in url (file:paypalLog.txt
On 5/1/12 2:02 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
The Paypal API should wait for a receipt confirmation response from
your script before it quits.
Thanks Pierre. I added put ok but it still times out. I don't know
what Paypal expects back. The sample PHP scripts I looked at don't
respond with
On 5/1/12 3:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I have tried:
1. Looping through the opensockets and closing each one
-- server 500 error
BTW, I'm pretty sure this isn't really a script error, I think libURL is
exiting to top. Exiting a cgi script throws a signal 11 error.
Unfortunately Paypal
On 02/05/2012, at 6:19 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
On 5/1/12 2:02 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote:
The Paypal API should wait for a receipt confirmation response from
your script before it quits.
Thanks Pierre. I added put ok but it still times out. I don't know what
On 5/1/12 4:38 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
I agree - I've had a few problems with the POST command over https as
well (nothing to do with Paypal).
Maybe I should try curl.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software |
Jacqueline,
Have you tried the cgi script with the actual IPN system... not the
sandbox? It doesn't appear to work.
Richard
On 5/1/2012 5:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/1/12 4:38 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
I agree - I've had a few problems with the POST command over https as
well (nothing
On 5/1/12 4:58 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
Jacqueline,
Have you tried the cgi script with the actual IPN system... not the
sandbox? It doesn't appear to work.
No, not yet. Are you logging? Do you get any error messages?
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
I'd be happy to use a PHP listener script to simply capture the IPN
data, respond to PayPal, and store the data to a file, so I can get at
it through LC. The following script is the basic PHP script PayPal
recommends. The sandbox test environment is happy with it. But the line
of code I added
Hi Richard
A couple of points:
1. you would want to do stuff with the data after you work out it's verified.
2. rather than dump to a file why not actually call your lc script with any
parameters you need from paypal (Actually that might get Jacqueline over her
hurdles too)
Cheers
--
M E R
Hi Monte,
This is all territory I have no experience with.
Regarding your point #1, I had that line of code there just to see if I
could get the data written out... which I can't. I suspect the problem
is with permissions.
If I use this address for the IPN sender (inside my cgi-bin... where
Regarding point #2, do you mean to call the cgi script from inside the PHP
listener? If so, what does that line of code look like?
It's the same as the callback to paypal but with your url.
--
M E R Goulding
Software development services
Bespoke application development for vertical
Monte,
Do you mean like the line shown below (==)? If so, it doesn't seem to
trigger my cgi script. Again, this PHP stuff is Greek to me.
Thanks.
Richard
// PHP 4.1
// read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';
file_put_contents(dump.txt, print_r($_POST,
Guys and Gals,
You may want to check
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/Paypal-repeats-identical-IPN-posts/td-p/465559
Cheers
andre
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Richard Miller w...@together.net wrote:
Monte,
Do you mean like the line shown below (==)? If so, it doesn't
On 5/1/12 7:47 PM, Richard Miller wrote:
Hi Monte,
This is all territory I have no experience with.
Regarding your point #1, I had that line of code there just to see if I
could get the data written out... which I can't. I suspect the problem
is with permissions.
If I use this address for the
Folks,
I found some old IPN code I had. It was a part of a online shop software.
There are two useful files:
ipn.inc - https://gist.github.com/2573122
ipn.irev - https://gist.github.com/2573132
The code above serves as reference material, I am not advocating that the
code above is safe or that
On 5/1/12 9:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
If I remember correctly, you need to output something from your IPN
handler. Doing the whole POST stuff is not enough. You need to output
something in the CGI or Apache will think it is a 500 error. You can't have
200 OK with no content, so just put ok.
On 5/1/12 8:55 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Guys and Gals,
You may want to check
https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/About-Settings/Paypal-repeats-identical-IPN-posts/td-p/465559
That's it! That's what's happening. I don't know how you found that
post, I've been crawling those forums for days and
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