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efih
#1 Posted : Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:37:35 AM
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I have a script that after customers have made payment into my paypal account they return to my site and the session variables that I have created will write their details to a MySQL database. For some reason which I can not find out is that this doesn't happen but when I test the code by passing the paypal payment everything works fine. So the question is does the paypal site after payment is made kill all sessions on their server and does this affect the sessions created on another server.
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#2 Posted : Tuesday, April 29, 2003 1:55:41 AM
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Our servers would not be able to kill a session managed by cookies since only the server that issues the cookie can read and modify it. Some ccokies expire when you leave a site. Also, if you're managing sessions in the URL, that could get lost.

You might consider passing an ID through in item_number or custom which will be echoed back in the IPN (and to the "return" URL when using IPN).

Patrick Breitenbach
PayPal, Inc.
Dev Net: https://www.paypal.com/pdn
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#3 Posted : Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:22:28 AM
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Thank a lot for that information, I tested this by typing into my form and create the sessions then I left the page to go to another website, I then returned to another page which uses these sessions in the page to add to my database and the sessions are still there and inserting into the database without any problems. Will be testing the whole thing again with a paypal payment.

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