jammykam
05-24-2003, 09:41 PM
Has anyone here used PayPal Instant Payment Notification (IPN) and ASP before?
I'm not quite sure exactly how it works but got have got the gist of it together in my head.
The IPN manual says that it is backend server-to-server integration, where PP server sends info to my server, which then has to respond back to PP, whoch then sends a final message back. How does this work? Is this all done within the customer transaction (I'm assuming its not this due to some of the other "features") or will PP server seperately call my server (thus invoking an IE window to open?) or something along thois lines. Just wondering how it all works really before I steam ahead!
It's shared hosting (god knows how many poeple with, but its low volume traffic)
Cheers
Kam
ps. anything I should watch out for when integrating this in ASP? any sample scripts would be handy :D
I'm not quite sure exactly how it works but got have got the gist of it together in my head.
The IPN manual says that it is backend server-to-server integration, where PP server sends info to my server, which then has to respond back to PP, whoch then sends a final message back. How does this work? Is this all done within the customer transaction (I'm assuming its not this due to some of the other "features") or will PP server seperately call my server (thus invoking an IE window to open?) or something along thois lines. Just wondering how it all works really before I steam ahead!
It's shared hosting (god knows how many poeple with, but its low volume traffic)
Cheers
Kam
ps. anything I should watch out for when integrating this in ASP? any sample scripts would be handy :D