Why is it that the paypal keeps sending the information to the ipn page you specify? Are they planning on integrating something that waits for a response to end the transmission? I have developed a table that updates the txn_id and then only handles the form if the txn_id doesn't exist but that seems like a silly way of handling it. Thanks for you time, Nathan

What would that look like on my page if I were to sent them a HTTP "200 OK" response? My page is all asp if that matters.
Thanks for you help, I am still pretty much a green bean at this stuff.
Nathan

Thanks for your guys' help...

So if anywhere in my page I have a response.redirect the server will send the status of 300. In my script I handle it like this...

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%>
<!--#include file="Connections/connstore.asp" -->

<%

Dim Item_ID 'variable passed back by PayPal


'read post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
str = Request.Form
Item_ID = Request.Form("Item_Number1")
Payment_status = Request.Form("payment_status")

' Post back to PayPal system to validate
str = str & "&cmd=_notify-validate"
set objHttp = Server.CreateObject("Msxml2.ServerXMLHTTP.4.0")
objHttp.open "POST", "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr", false
objHttp.Send str

' Check notification validation
If (Item_ID <> "") then
if (objHttp.status <> 200 ) then
response.Redirect("pagenotavail.htm")
'check to see if it was a purchase made through www.rrrtifax.com
elseif (Payment_status = "PENDING") then
set Cm = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Cm.ActiveConnection = MM_connStore_STRING
Cm.CommandText = "UPDATE tblProducts SET SoldFlag = true WHERE Item_ID = '" & Item_ID & "'"
Cm.CommandType = 1
Cm.Execute
response.Redirect("thankyou.htm")
elseif (Payment_status = "FAILED") then
response.Redirect("statusfailed.htm")
elseIf (objHttp.responseText <> "VERIFIED" and Payment_status = "COMPLETED") then


'update the item to sold after a confirmation from paypal
set Cm = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
Cm.ActiveConnection = MM_connStore_STRING
Cm.CommandText = "UPDATE tblProducts SET SoldFlag = true WHERE Item_ID = '" & Item_ID & "'"
Cm.CommandType = 1
Cm.Execute


'We end the insert into our database table
End If
End If
response.Redirect("thankyou.htm")%>

Would these redirects be my problem?

Thanks again,
Nathan

Template = server.mappath("thankyou.htm")
Set Output = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set Template = Output.OpenTextFile(Template, 1, False)
HTML_Output = Template.ReadAll
HTML_Output = Replace(HTML_Output, "<-Receiver_Email->", Receiver_Email)

' bah, blah, blah down the list we go....

Response.Write (HTML_Output)
Template.Close
Set Template = Nothing
Set Output = Nothing

Pull your page into your IPN script itself like so and use some variable tags to greet your customers by <-First_Name-> in the process ;-)


Hope this helped?


Kindest regards,

Marcus Cicero
EliteWeaver UK

Your IPN doesn't need a redirect. This page is solely used by paypal and the customer never sees it.

Web development - http://www.revilloc.com

Upon transaction success the customer is directed to the the ipn page so that I can personalize a confirmation for the customer letting him/her know that the transaction has processed and when to expect them to ship. I think this is a better solution so that the customer isn't bombarded with 5 emails about their transaction.