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

Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # 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? dunno - definitely going to ask though! in fact I feel stupid for not contemplating it myself, I have a nasty suspicion that the script behind the url that the tradedoubler webbug points to does stuff with the info the user's browser would normally provide ... in which case I would need to do something else - like generate the webbug url at the point that I can (during order finalization) and store the generated url in the relevant user's session and then use/place the webbug with that url at the first opportunity to > Is the > order reconstructible from the callback url? to some extent but I don't think that is relevant to my current little puzzle. > If not I'd write > a small script to fetch urls from a database table and feed them to > wget or similar. you've got me thinking about it from a totally different angle, and I've got to understanding sockets/streams a little too! I now have enough ammo to 'kill' the problem. thank you very much for lending me your brain :-) >