Paypal sandbox account in dotnet: "IPN Response invalid"
- by Sam
I am integrating Paypal with my website. I use a sandbox account, one buyer account and one seller account. I downloaded the code below from Paypal:
string strSandbox = "https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr";
HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(strSandbox);
//Set values for the request back
req.Method = "POST";
req.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
byte[] param = Request.BinaryRead(HttpContext.Current.Request.ContentLength);
string strRequest = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(param);
strRequest += "&cmd=_notify-validate";
req.ContentLength = strRequest.Length;
//for proxy
//WebProxy proxy = new WebProxy(new Uri("http://url:port#"));
//req.Proxy = proxy;
//Send the request to PayPal and get the response
StreamWriter streamOut = new StreamWriter(req.GetRequestStream(), System.Text.Encoding.ASCII);
streamOut.Write(strRequest);
streamOut.Close();
StreamReader streamIn = new StreamReader(req.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
string strResponse = streamIn.ReadToEnd();
streamIn.Close();
if (strResponse == "VERIFIED")
{
//check the payment_status is Completed
//check that txn_id has not been previously processed
//check that receiver_email is your Primary PayPal email
//check that payment_amount/payment_currency are correct
//process payment
}
else if (strResponse == "INVALID")
{
//log for manual investigation
}
else
{
//log response/ipn data for manual investigation
}
When I add this snippet in my pageload event of my success page, I show the IPN response as INVALID, but amount is paid successfully. Why is this? Paypal's docs are not clear.
