[Zope] paypal IPN. Debug messages missing. Script goes zombie

[Ed Colmar]

Hi all!

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...  ???

    def 
paypal_notify(self,address_street='',address_zip='',first_name='',last_name='',payer_business_name='',payer_email='',
            
payer_id='',payer_status='',residence_country='',quantity='',receiver_email='',receiver_id='',custom='',invoice='',
            memo='',auth_id='',auth_exp='',auth_amount='',auth_status='',
            remaining_settle='',
            mc_gross_x='',mc_handling_x='',mc_shipping_x='',
            
num_cart_items='',parent_txn_id='',payment_date='',payment_status='',payment_type='',
            
pending_reason='',reason_code='',txn_id='',txn_type='',exchange_rate='',mc_currency='',mc_fee='',
            mc_gross='', 
mc_handling='',payment_gross='',settle_amount='',settle_currency='',
            
auction_buyer_id='',auction_closing_date='',auction_multi_item='',for_auction='',
            
option_name1='',option_name2='',option_selection1='',option_selection2='',tax='',
            
subscr_date='',subscr_effective='',period1='',period2='',period3='',amount1='',
            
amount2='',amount3='',mc_amount1='',mc_amount2='',mc_amount3='',recurring='',
            reattempt='',retry_at='', 
recur_times='',username='',password='',subscr_id='',test_ipn=0,REQUEST=None):
        """ take a IPN from paypal, and update the database """
        print "Initiating paypal IPN"
        # they want us to send back their same shite (and we've just nicely
        # deblocked it from the REQUEST...)
        print "DEBUG = STARTING"
        requestform = REQUEST.form
        print requestform['quantity'] # debug test
        requestform['cmd'] = '_notify-validate'
        print "DEBUG = INSERTED NEW VALUE"
        print requestform
        print "sending request back to paypal"
        requestparams = urllib.urlencode(requestform)
        print "DEBUG = Encoded Request"
        print requestparams
        data = 
urllib.urlopen('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr',  
requestform)
        print "DEBUG = urlretrieved"
        print data.read()
        print "DEBUG = DATA READ"

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I see all my debug print commands until "encoded Request" and 
requestparams, so it is getting lost on the urlopen call.

Thanks for any help or tips.  I'll post the final IPN method when I'm done.

Cheers!

-ed