Project

General

Profile

Actions
Copy link

Feature proposal #8535

closed

Paypal gateway: Workaround for a bug at Paypal.com side to display Thank you page after purchase instead of "INVALID" (when Paypal returns with PDT without POST despite rm=2 asking for it)

Added by beat almost 3 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
beat
Target version:
4.5.2
Start date:
25 May 2021
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

Description

Around mid-May, Paypal started subitely ignoring the rm=2 parameter (behaving like rm=0) for payments requiring a secure return by POST and not just GET with long URL potentially disclosing private information.

This undocumented change is a bug on Paypal.com side.

The Paypal.com documentation still states that rm=2 should return to site with a POST and not a GET:
https://developer.paypal.com/docs/paypal-payments-standard/integration-guide/Appx-websitestandard-htmlvariables/

This breaks the return page, that displays "INVALID" instead of the Thank you message, as it is not treated as a valid PDT return, because it is lacking the POST part and returning private information that a PDT with rm=2 should not return.

Actions
Copy link

Also available in: Atom PDF