urgent - and now, MORE paypal problems

[advwebsys]

i just implemented a small catalog, which has several DD products as well as a complete cased CD for sale.

customer insisted on using paypal.

during initial testing we kept getting 3500 errors from paypal which ultimately came down to mis-spelling the email address (DUH!)

i've made the changes suggested in thread 24022 (http://community.actinic.com/showhread.php?t=24022)

i submitted a transaction, was able to process the payment and on the return to actinic (os000001.pl) got an error message 'bad input string'.

the string posted to os000001.pl had an extra & in it like so:

i split the string for readability

SEQUENCE=3&ACTION=Finish&ORDERNUMBER=DC624810000011
&REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2ejuliocesarmusicsales%2ecom%2f&&tx=

which i BELIEVE is being generated by paypal.

if i remove that 2nd & in the location bar and resubmit the string, VOILA! a receipt with a download link.

so, i've sent off an email to them.

has anyone experienced anything similar?

could we possibly patch os000001.pl or something it calls to replace && with & in parameter strings? it's a single perl statement. the question is WHERE.

[TraceyG]

Hi David,

I'm afraid that the link to the other thread that you gave brings up a 'Page not found' error so I can't see what you have tried. I was going to suggest you take a look at your Paypal settings and see if you have PDT switched on. I would suggest trying it with this option turned off.

[advwebsys]

the 404 is due to the fact that i can't type

should be

http://community.actinic.com/showthread?t=24022

what a difference a 't' makes.

in any event turning off PDT seems to have worked!