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"Google Checkout."

Can someone advise me whether I should be able to run a Google Checkout service via my website?

For some reason my implementation is working perfectly whilst running on my local server, but once I upload to my Freeola service it no longer works properly.

Are there some limitations in using the Google Checkout system, perhaps relating to SSL certificates?

Would appreciate any insights.

My implementation is using the XML API rather than a simple Buy Now button incase that has any bearing.

Good point there! Post edited.

Hmmm... that explains why my earlier (see previous post) cURL script never worked.

Someone may read your last statement to mean that VIP Hosting isn't as secure as Standard Hosting!?









[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Hello,

I'm afraid you won't be able to use anything that requires outbound connections on our free hosting. Your sites are using our free hosting so using cURL or fopen will not work.
It is one of the reasons we offer VIP hosting as this service has far fewer restrictions. If Google Checkout is important to you then you might want to consider VIP hosting, it's only from £3.49 per month.

I have amended my initial post to make it clear that cURL can be used with VIP and not our Free hosting.

Thanks so much guys, really hope there's a resolution to this as I use Freeola services for all of my web hosting needs and i've never found something that held me back from achieving what I need to.

I really appreciate all your help and look forward to hearing back!!

I believe one of my colleagues has started looking into this for you today. They are testing across all server so hopefully we'll be able to report back soon!

This is beyond my understanding now lol, but i've looked through the PHP code I have for the Google Checkout system for any mention of CURL and here's the snipper i've found that I believe could be relevant:

function SendReq($url, $header_arr, $postargs, $timeout=false) {
// Get the curl session object
$session = curl_init($url);
$this->log->LogRequest($postargs);
// Set the POST options.
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header_arr);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $postargs);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

if(!empty($this->certPath) && file_exists($this->certPath)) {
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_CAINFO, $this->certPath);
}
else {
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
}

if(is_array($this->proxy) && count($this->proxy)) {
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_PROXY,
$this->proxy['host'] . ":" . $this->proxy['port']);
}
if($timeout != false){
curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout);

}
// Do the POST and then close the session
$response = curl_exec($session);
if (curl_errno($session)) {
$this->log->LogError(curl_error($session));
return array("CURL_ERR", curl_error($session));
} else {
curl_close($session);
}

Any chance of seeing the cURL code? I'm guessing you're POSTing XML but what is your cURL setup (setopts if you are using PHP)?
Do you have the cURL error code? I can't remember off the top of my head the format of the error message, I'm saying this because your error has a colon in it, which normally signifies a port number.

Thanks so much for your help so far guys, i've been unable to get back to this since posting originally which is a bit ironic!!!!

I am getting the following error message:

An error had ocurred:
HTTP Status: CURL_ERR:
Error message:
Failed to connect to 74.125.79.81: Permission denied

My understanding was always that Google Checkout relies on CURL, semi-confirmed by this error message, but as far as I can tell this is enabled by Freeola?

Thanks so much for your help folks.

Eccles wrote:
> Not exactly. You can work around the block on fopen by using the
> more secure, but more involved cURL library. If you are not
> writing you own script then this may mean you have to modify it,
> which some people cannot do as they have no knowledge of PHP.

Oh fair enough - the script creator (domain WHOIS) tried changing to cURL when I last had a go with this (few years back) but couldn't get anywhere!

If I have another go at it in the future I'll get back to you.

I'll let the OP have his thread back now! ;¬)
[s]Hmmm...[/s]

Not exactly. You can work around the block on fopen by using the more secure, but more involved cURL library
(Edit: should have said this applies to VIP hosting!). If you are not writing you own script then this may mean you have to modify it, which some people cannot do as they have no knowledge of PHP.