(Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:00:30PM -0400) zope-request@zope.org wrote/schrieb/egrapse:

From: Ed Colmar <ed@greengraphics.net> I've been hacking together a few seperate paypal IPN connections, some code from basion, and some from random web scrapings... Anyway... Things are working for the most part, except that this method for some reason dies when using urllib.urlopen(), and what is really wierd is that I get no error message, it just hangs.

I am running an older version of zope, but I have never seen this behaviour before. The debug (-D) flag is set in start.

here is the code I am using... As far as I can tell my syntax is proper... ??? ... snip ... data = urllib.urlopen('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr', requestform)

When doing urlopen, you will want to use timeoutsocket.py (included in newer versions of python (or zope), found as a simple file on the web in the ol' times of zope 2.5.1. Without this your connectiion will just hang at the urlopen command, *as there is no timeout*. Also look out for what others have aid in respect to https, no expirience with that myself. There are some applications for Plone to use PayPal (PloneMall / PlonePayPal), you might want to look at these for sample code too. Regards, Sascha