IPN Issues (new)

Good morning Rob,

How are you?

Sorry to bother you again. We've just been receiving IPN warning e-mails again:

Please check your server that handles PayPal Instant Payment Notifications (IPN). IPNs sent to the following URL(s) failed:
www.psychicshelly.com/index.php?option=c...oller=admin&task=ipn

We haven't made any changes to the site recently so I can't understand why these warnings have just started but would be grateful for any help that you may be able to offer.

When I try to go to that URL, nothing happens. When I tried a few times this morning, the page would hang and when I tried to then go to another page on the site, nothing would load.

I have uninstalled RSFirewall and Akeeba Admin Tools incase they were blocking access but that hasn't made any difference.

I checked the error logs and nothing is showing that is related to the issue.

Sorry to be a pain but do you have any ideas?

Many thanks


James

Thanks. I just made the change. Will know by 0710 GMT+2 tomorrow if it worked or not.

Hi again,

Sorry for the delay. But there's been no new mails from PayPal since I updated this in PayPal. So it looks like that was the issuse.

Hi again,

I earlier reported that after updating the URL for IPN the error stopped. Well, it didn't.

Also I was checking into perhaps using Stripe as a payment option. But it looks like this is no longer supported?

Also, does this mean you have quit developing this anymore?

Oh well. Guess it had to happen at some time.

Your component has been the backbone of one of my clients website since 2014!! So I've been very happy with your effort for years! Sad to see this component discontinued.

Hi Rob,

That's great news, thank you!

We'll give it a go now.

Thanks again


James

I've found some new information to this.

The info is here: www.reddit.com/r/pfBlockerNG/comments/ju...ng_up_on_alienvault/

Why this is relevant is this:

I have been doing some additional testing and I was able to reproduce the issue you described. What's happening is your application is making an HTTPS request to 151.101.193.21 (Fastly) and it is never getting any data back from the page request, even after several minutes. This indicates a problem with the remote host at 151.101.193.21.

Here's a snippet from a system trace against your PHP process showing the issue:

773166 13:41:59 connect(5, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(443), sin_addr=inet_addr("151.101.129.21")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
773166 13:41:59 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 30000) = 1 ([{fd=5, revents=POLLOUT}])
773166 13:41:59 getsockopt(5, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0
...
773166 13:42:00 read(5, "\27\3\3\0-", 5) = 5
773166 13:42:00 read(5, "\251\321R\306\0355i\325M;\336B\247\22\372\273\253t\34\303K,x^\270`j\231)\276F\206}|\250Ha\17NX\21\2621\21\375", 45) = 45
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0
773166 13:42:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
773166 13:42:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
773166 13:42:00 read(5, 0x2de4253, 5) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
773166 13:42:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 60000) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:43:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
773166 13:43:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0
773166 13:43:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:43:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
773166 13:43:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
773166 13:43:00 read(5, 0x2de4253, 5) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
773166 13:43:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 60000) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:44:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
773166 13:44:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0
773166 13:44:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:44:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
773166 13:44:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
773166 13:44:00 read(5, 0x2de4253, 5) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
773166 13:44:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI}], 1, 60000) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:45:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x802 (flags O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK)
773166 13:45:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0
773166 13:45:00 poll([{fd=5, events=POLLIN|POLLPRI|POLLERR|POLLHUP}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
773166 13:45:00 fcntl(5, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
773166 13:45:00 fcntl(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
773166 13:45:00 read(5, 0x2de4253, 5) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

I havent updated yet. I will update and have a try (there's a lot of custom view with added info involved, so I have to be mindful when updating).

Will surely check in after I'm done with it.

Hi again. I just want to give a short update which will be updated again in a few days.

I added the files to day and made sure that IPN notifications on PayPal is turned on. So I'll check in in a few days with feedback about how it worked out.

UPDATE:
The PayPal processor has started to work for the site again.