[Zope] Outbound HTTPS Request

[Schmidt, Allen J.]

I hope you get some response from this request. I tried about a year ago and
no one responded. I am not sure how to handle the IPN so we just sent a
hidden variable to PayPal and it was carried through the whole process until
payment was verified. A link back to our site connected that transaction to
the user that started it and marked their database entry as PAID. Worked
well when the user followed it all the way through. We had some who did pay
through PP but for some reason did not click on that last final link that
went back to our site to mark them as PAID. We would check daily and if
their info was in our database and on PP and they were marked at PAID on PP,
we just updated the database manually. It as an event registration system
and so was only highly trafficked for a short period. Was not intended to be
a long term solution but it worked for what we needed.

-Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of Kevin
Gill
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:25 AM
To: zope@zope.org
Subject: [Zope] Outbound HTTPS Request


Hi,

I am trying to implement a subscription process using PayPals 
(http://www.paypal.com) IPN (Immediate Payment Notification) service.

This service sends me a notification  of a payment (via http), 
directly from the paypal server. This is easy to process using Zope.

However, I am required to validate the payment, using a secure link.
My Zope Server needs to send a secure HTTP request to the remote
Paypal server. 

My question involves two parts:


	What is the best way (or even a way) of sending an outbound 
	server to server http request from my Zope server to another server?


	How can I send a https request (using a verisign certificate)
	from Zope / Python?

Thanks

Kevin

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