Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-18 Thread Kenneth Downs
Richard Huxton wrote: Kenneth Downs wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Kenneth Downs wrote: The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site.

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-18 Thread Richard Huxton
Kenneth Downs wrote: Richard Huxton wrote: Kenneth Downs wrote: The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. When they pay, paypal s

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-18 Thread Kenneth Downs
Richard Huxton wrote: Kenneth Downs wrote: The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. When they pay, paypal sends a POST with vario

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-18 Thread Kenneth Downs
Dave Page wrote: Kenneth Downs wrote: The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. When they pay, paypal sends a POST with various i

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:45:18AM -0400, Kenneth Downs wrote: > The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN > transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial > transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. > When they pay, payp

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread PFC
Has anybody pondered this and come up with anything? Well, I've done e-commerce stuff although it was with banks, not paypal. There are a few levels of safety : - Level 0 : Total stupidity (osCommerce) Bank redirects to your site. Order is marked as paid with "paid=1" in the UR

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread Dave Page
Kenneth Downs wrote: > The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN > transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial > transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. > When they pay, paypal sends a POST with various information that

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread Richard Huxton
Kenneth Downs wrote: The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. When they pay, paypal sends a POST with various information that we

Re: [GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread John Gateley
On Thu, 17 May 2007 09:45:18 -0400 Kenneth Downs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The last one left that I have is the sticky issue of a paypal IPN > transaction coming in. I believe it applies generally to financial > transactions. The user is sent by our application to the Paypal site. > When

[GENERAL] Paypal and "going root"

2007-05-17 Thread Kenneth Downs
I am seeking to have a system in which it is never necessary for application code to "go root" w/respect to the database server, where all commands issued to a server are as a regular logged in user with their privileges. There are two holes I know of here. Thanks to Tom I've got the answer