PayPal Website Payments Pro - 2007 User Manual

Website Payments
Pro – HTTPS Interface
Developer’s Guide

For Professional Use Only
Currently only available in English.

A usage Professional Uniquement
Disponible en Anglais uniquement pour l’instant.

Last updated: August 2007

Website Payments Pro – HTTPS Interface Developer’s Guide

Document Number: 200039.en_US-200708

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Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Documentation Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Revision History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Chapter 1 About the HTTPS Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Moving from the Payflow SDK to the HTTPS interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Getting sample code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Contacting Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Chapter 2 Reference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

URLs for sending messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

HTTPS headers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Transaction message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Common problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Preface

This Document

This document describes the HTTPS interface, which allows you to post transactions directly
to the Payflow servers. Use the HTTPS interface for all operating systems and language
besides Java and .NET.

Documentation Problems

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Revision History

Date Description

August 2007 First version of this document.

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