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JGM
JGM

Reputation: 38

PayPal stripping variables on the return url query

Yesterday I was notified that a site I administer wasn't sending e-mail notifications of successful orders to clients and to the assigned people in charge of processing the order for shipment.

I made a test transaction and noticed that the return url given on the generated html of the payment button which has 2 variables like this:

http://example.com/return?var1=something&var2=something2

Was stripped by paypal to:

http://example.com/return?var1=something

Also the ipn notification wasn't triggered correctly and also the ipn url makes use of more than 1 GET variables which it seems that paypal is also stripping.

I found this other report here on stackoverflow:

QueryString values removed from the IPN endpoint by PayPal

It answers lots of questions, but the big question is:

¿Should I wait for paypal to finish whatever they are doing on their backend or should I make changes to my codebase that adapt to this undocumented changes?

Other references:

PayPal IPN Unexpected Changes

Upvotes: 0

Views: 118

Answers (1)

avariant
avariant

Reputation: 2300

I received a response from PayPal today (3/15) that they have fixed the issue. (I submitted a report on ~3/10.) Hopefully it is fully resolved and you won't have to make any modifications.

Upvotes: 1

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