New PayPal IPN requirements
PayPal has recently informed customers using PayPal standard that Instant Payment Notification may not work staring February 1, 2013. See explanation below. They have supplied the following PHP code as a remedy:
// post back to PayPal system to validate
$header .="POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$header .="Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .="Host: www.paypal.com\r\n";
$header .="Connection: close\r\n";
On what page would I paste this code and what code needs to be deleted?
Thank you,
David
We have recently identified that this change may impact the ability of some of our merchants to perform IPN (Instant Payment Notification) post-back validation or PDT (Payment Data Transfer) posts to www.paypal.com. This happens when the IPN or PDT scripts use HTTP 1.0 protocol and do not include the “Host: www.paypal.com” header in the HTTP request.
Additional Details
Starting February 1, 2013, we will require all incoming requests to have a “Host” header which complies with HTTP 1.1 specifications. This header was not required under HTTP 1.0. IPN and PDT scripts using HTTP 1.0 may start failing with “HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request” errors after February 1, 2013, which will result in IPN messages not being validated successfully, or PDT scripts not being able to retrieve transaction information.
Action Required before February 1, 2013
Merchants need to update their IPN and/or PDT scripts to use HTTP 1.1, and include the "Host: www.paypal.com" and "Connection: close" HTTP headers in the IPN and PDT scripts.
For examples, please refer to 320404.
The PayPal Sandbox has been configured to reject any HTTP requests without the “Host” header with a HTTP 400 error. Merchants can use the Sandbox environment to certify the changes to their IPN and PDT scripts.
For more information on PDT and IPN, please refer to pdt and ipn. For additional information or questions about this change, please contact PayPal's Merchant Technical Support team via mts.