cUrl

[kobra]

According to my hoster who seems fairly on the ball and whom I've used for approx 5 years:

I would recommend that you contact the Zen Cart people and ask that they build in support for external cURL calls.

There are no plans to rewrite Zen Cart to use external CURL resources. It's written to depend on CURL (and SSL) being compiled into PHP.

DrByte can correct me if I am mistaken,but CURL has been used in at least the past several distributions and possibly back to the 1.2.x series
So I do not see how this worked before??

[enquirer66]

That would be interesting to know. PayPal Express Checkout and IPN both worked when apparently cUrl was not compiled into php on the previous version I used. But surely, there are going to be lots of people for whom using this version is no longer a possibility? I don't understand.... why go the route of alienating users. Is PayPal not the most widely used of all your payment modules? Perhaps not? Anyway, I will downgrade... I assume that is what I need to do?

[Merlinpa1969]

I think you'll find that many web hosting providers do not compile cURL into PHP due to security considerations.

your host dosnt have a clue,

[DrByte]

The PayPal IPN (website payments standard) module does NOT use CURL.
If your host refuses to compile CURL into PHP, you're stuck with using the IPN module.

You should really do some research to determine whether or not your host's knowledge is credible. It doesn't seem so thus far. But, that's for you to decide.

[enquirer66]

You were right. They were wrong. They now say it is compiled but that a firewall parameter was blocking it. Actually, checking through their offers on hosting plans I see they support cUrl for the plan I subscribed to. Very tedious time-wasting for all... thanks for your elucidations.