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Simon A
Simon A

Reputation: 1

paypal cancel url has spurious :80

When the post to the PayPal login page is complete there's a link at the bottom to cancel the transaction; this is, supposedly, set in the following hidden field:

"CANCELURL" value="https://secure.MySite.com/checkout/cancel.cfm"

However, what's happening with my integration is that it's going to the return URL I've set, but with a spurious :80 in it:

"https://secure.MySite.com:80/checkout/SetExpressCheckout.cfm"

I don't understand where the :80 is coming from as it's not specified anywhere.

Does anyone have any idea why I'm getting this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (1)

Scott Stroz
Scott Stroz

Reputation: 7519

80 is the default port number used for HTTP requests.

All TCP and UDP requests use a specific 'port' - FTP default port is 21, default HTTPS is 443. Here is a list of TCP and UDP ports.

In a URL, adding :80 after the domain name is simply specifying that the request is sent on port 80 - which, unless you changed it, will be the default port for HTTP requests. Using http://mydomain.com:80 is the same as using http://mydomain.com as long as the web server is listening on port 80 as browsers will automatically send HTTP requests on port 80.

EDIT:

As noted below, the cancel URL is HTTPS, but the URL you posted with the :80 is not. I also noticed that the URL you provided as the 'CANCELURL' is not the same one you posted with the "80 added to it. Maybe you need to provide more details.

There might be something in the API that you need to set to tell it to use HTTPS (port 443) over HTTP (port 80).

Upvotes: 2

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