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HTTP 1.1 PayPal IPN Example PHP Code

PayPal recently announced that they're going to "discontinue support for HTTP 1.0 protocol starting February 1, 2013."  Today I ran into some problems implementing these changes.  It turns out that the VERIFIED response code is now followed by a \r\n.  So, the previous if (strcmp($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) { code no longer works by itself.  I was able to solve this by trimming off the \r\n using  $res = trim($res);.  I've posted some example code here in case anyone else is having trouble making their old IPN scripts work with PayPal's new requirements. 

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<?php

//read the post from PayPal system and add 'cmd'
$req = 'cmd=_notify-validate';

foreach ($_POST as $key => $value) {
    $value = urlencode(stripslashes($value));
    $req .= "&$key=$value";
}

//post back to PayPal system to validate (replaces old headers)
$header = "POST /cgi-bin/webscr HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Host: www.paypal.com\r\n";
$header .= "Connection: close\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen ('ssl://www.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
//

//error connecting to paypal
if (!$fp) {
    //
}
    
//successful connection    
if ($fp) {
    fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
    
    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $res = fgets ($fp, 1024);
        $res = trim($res); //NEW & IMPORTANT
                
        if (strcmp($res, "VERIFIED") == 0) {
            //insert order into database    
        }
    
        if (strcmp ($res, "INVALID") == 0) {
            //insert into DB in a table for bad payments for you to process later
        }
    }

    fclose($fp);
}

?>

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