Problem with PayPal checkout

[DrByte]

For what ever reason paypal is still adding "?ec" to the end of the url

https://www.discountprintingservice.com/ipn_main_handler.php?type=ec

When it should be

https://www.discountprintingservice.com/ipn_main_handler.php

That's not necessarily wrong.

[GoldBuckle]

That's not necessarily wrong.

DrByte can you elaborate please?

[RodG]

Yes I will leave it disabled, and RogG the problem was reported today, don't know how long it is been going on but we have noticed a decrease in online sales for the last couple of weeks but sales off the site is up and down do it is hard to tell when it started.

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. I went to bed shortly after my last post.

Anyway, I now see that you've disabled the URL rewriting, and the PayPal links, etc are now working fine.

If *you* are still having an issue with this rewriting disabled please try clearing your browser cache and trying again.

Now the 'hard' part. Trying to figure out which of the rules are/were causing the problem.

Probably the easiest way to determine this would be to post a copy of your .htaccess file so that we can take a look at it for you.

Cheers
RodG

[RodG]

PS. To help advance my education, when you 'disabled' the URL rewriting this second time, did you do it in the same way as you did the 1st time (where you said it didn't solve the problem), or did you disable it a different way (such as by removing the .htaccess file)?

If you disabled it the same way in both cases, it is possible that *you* didn't see any difference due to caching.

Sorry for all the questions, but it is this kind of detail that gives me/us that 'little bit extra' when we see others having the same kind of problem/symptoms.

Cheers
RodG

[mc12345678]

For what ever reason paypal is still adding "?ec" to the end of the url

https://www.discountprintingservice.com/ipn_main_handler.php?type=ec

When it should be

https://www.discountprintingservice.com/ipn_main_handler.php

That's not necessarily wrong.

DrByte can you elaborate please?

The fact that the uri ends with ?type=ec is not necessarily a problem.

The additional information is/would be handled by the ipn_main_handler.php file and used to identify the type of payment to be processed.

It would beg the question of why it is thought that the information would be expected not to be present... Is it thought that the URI rewriter would remove/obscure the information, and if so, does the URI rewriting software specifically support that?

[DivaVocals]

Is it thought that the URI rewriter would remove/obscure the information, and if so, does the URI rewriting software specifically support that?

Let me jump in here.. the issue with the PayPal URL being re-written by Ultimate SEO is not NATIVE behavior for this module.. (just to clear things up a bit..)

[RodG]

Let me jump in here.. the issue with the PayPal URL being re-written by Ultimate SEO is not NATIVE behavior for this module.. (just to clear things up a bit..)

Personally, I didn't think it was. After all, this is used by a LOT of people, and this is the 1st time I've heard of this specific problem.

I do think it's *something* that's been added to the .htaccess file though (Although I'm awaiting a response to my questions in post#14 before I'll be totally convinced - or proven wrong).

It's the 'not knowing' that I don't like.

Cheers
RodG

[DivaVocals]

Personally, I didn't think it was. After all, this is used by a LOT of people, and this is the 1st time I've heard of this specific problem.

I do think it's *something* that's been added to the .htaccess file though (Although I'm awaiting a response to my questions in post#14 before I'll be totally convinced - or proven wrong).

It's the 'not knowing' that I don't like.

Cheers
RodG

I agree with your theory of the crime..