PERL CGI Beginners - Sending back an http 200 response

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Sending back an http 200 response

Denzil Kruse

2006-03-14, 6:55 pm

Hi all,

I'm try to interact with another server. It sends me
a post (I think) and I catch it with my cgi script.
But, it wants me to send back a 200 response with just
OK in it.

How do I do that? Do I have to use the HTTP.pm and
set up a handler? I was hoping to use CGI.pm, but I
guess that it's too late by then. If I do have to set
up a handler, what about the rest of the posts sent to
my server? I only want to handle the ones from that
other particlur server (which is pay pal by the way)

Paypal's help said this:

"PayPal's IPN system expects your web server to send
an HTTP 200 response when the IPN is sent to your IPN
script."

Thanks,
Denzil

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Denzil Kruse

2006-03-15, 9:55 pm

--- Jay Savage <daggerquill@gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe. But why not use the tools that are alreay out
> there?
> http://search.cpan.org/search?query=paypal&mode=all.
>
> HTH,
>
> -- jay

Thanks! I didn't realize they were there!

Denzil

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