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user2183172
user2183172

Reputation: 21

Not receiving custom value from Paypal on mobile devices

I have a paypal button on my site and I have a custom value that is returned from paypal to my site on completion of the transaction.

It works fine on desktops but for some reason it wont work on mobile devices like an android phone or an Ipad. the payment goes through but the value doesn't seem to be passed to my page.

thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 530

Answers (2)

Chris Hecker
Chris Hecker

Reputation: 83

It looks like when payments are coming back through from mobile.paypal.com, any get parameters on the 'return' url are being unencoded first, so if there's a %2B in the url I pass to paypal, when it comes back, it's a + (meaning, you're decoding them on your side after the post, then encoding them, instead of simply encoding them). Same for %3D coming back as =, and I'd assume all sorts of other invalid stuff. This is not true if the 'return' comes from www.paypal.com. I'll report a bug, but I'm assuming others will want to know this information.

Chris

Update: I just got one of these malformed urls from www.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/webscr, so it's not just the mobile site...

Upvotes: 1

PP_MTS_Matt
PP_MTS_Matt

Reputation: 1394

Thank you for reaching out to me. We found there was an issue with the mobile flow not returning data when using RM=2. To retrieve the data you opted to switch to Payment Data Transfer (PDT) to collect the information.

We'll continue working on the issue of returning no Post data while using RM=2 in the mobile flow but at least we got your goal accomplished.

Upvotes: 1

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