Re: non-blocking request to a url (via curl or file_get_contents or whatever)...

# jochem@iamjochem.com / 2007-01-20 16:50:48 +0100: > Roman Neuhauser wrote: > 1. user stuffs things into shopping basket on [my] site (data stored in session) > 2. user goes to check out. > 3. user chooses online payment. > 4. user is redirected to online payment provider site > 5. user completes payment successfully > 6. online payment provider site contacts [my] site/server directly with transaction > status/details > 7. user is shown 'thank you' page on online payment provider site > 8. user is redirected back to [my] site and shown 'real' 'thank you' page. That was perfect, thanks a lot! > normally in step 8 the webbug would be placed on the 'thank you' page, > but in this case the data needed to craft the webbug's url is no > longer available - the solution is to perform the request the the > webbug's url represents directly from my server during the > code that runs as a result of the request made by the online payment > provider in step 6. Is it important that the callback gets called synchronously? Is the order reconstructible from the callback url? If not I'd write a small script to fetch urls from a database table and feed them to wget or similar. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991