Trying saying that title 5 times fast! I have a customer that uses the PayPal IPN (Instant Payment Notification) service. The way the service works is pretty basic. A users places products in a cart on your site, when they are ready to place an order they are transfered to PayPal to place the order. When the order is complete you are transfered back to your shopping cart. So far so simple right? Up until about 2 weeks ago I would say yes.

The code on the site has been working great for the past 3 years and really no complaints from the customer. All of a sudden I have been seeing many errors come through telling me that form.fieldnames is undefined. This is how they used to pass transaction parameters back, through a form structure. Without any warning or announcement (at least that I am aware of) the service no longer passes back a form structure, everything is sent through the URL. I am just amazed that they would change the service like this. I know have to go through and change the code for the client.

Is anyone else having this problem or are they playing a joke on me? If this was public knowledge & no I did not get the memo (Peter)(office space) than I apologize. I am pretty deep in the programming community and have to believe that I would have found out about this If an announcement was made. Ok rant over, please leave a comment If you are having this problem or If I was the one to notify you of it!

 

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