LWP::UserAgent Question

[Panthaur]

I'm using the following portion of code in a program for IPN Validation with Paypal:

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$query = "the information that paypal sends the server when a person purchases something";

use LWP::UserAgent;
$useragent = new LWP::UserAgent;
$request = new HTTP::Request 'POST','

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr';

$request->content_type('application/x-

http://www-form-urlencoded');

$request->content($query);
$results = $useragent->request($request);
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It is for an IPN authorization script on a website i'm working on. My problem is that I should be getting a code back from the http post that I am doing, but instead I am getting this hash shown below:

HTTP::Response=HASH(0x8280e30)

I should be getting back the words VERIFIED or INVALID, but i'm getting this gibberish instead? Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong in my script? Just so everyone knows, it is a redhat 7.2 server with PERL 5.6.1.

The script is posting back to Paypal with the proper information, but I can't seem to read the response that I need to validate the transaction with Paypal. If someone has a better snippet of code to do that same thing I am trying to do, it would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Panthaur

 

[fishiface]

You are receiving a response object which has methods to recover the info you need. The following (from the HTTP::Response manpage) covers the common cases:

        $results = $useragent->request($request);
        if ($results->is_success) {
            print $results->content;
        } else {
            print $results->error_as_HTML;
        }

There are other methods covering the more complex cases.

PS - it's not just you: does look confusing first time through ;-)

Yours,



fish




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