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kittykatmeowmeow wrote:Generate a paypal button through Paypal! Don't use the s2member button generator. That is how I fixed the Unable to verify POST vars error message.

Can you be more specific on how to do this through paypal? Also, have you tried canceling the account and making sure the accounts get degraded/deleted as expected?

got a reply from Jason today:

Jason,

I asked hosting support for help disabling curl to go with fopen, this is what they reply back with:

"Please be aware that the curl.dll extension listed in your accounts php.ini account is specific to a Windows hosting environment. Curl is enabled on our shared servers by default and unfortunately, it cannot be disabled. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Let us know if you have further questions or concerns and we will be happy to assist you. "

Am I screwed?

No, as long as your hosting provider also supports `allow_url_fopen = on`, which most do, you can simply add this file to your WP installation.

Create the /mu-plugins/ directory here:
/wp-content/mu-plugins/disable-curl.php

Inside disable-curl.php, add this code:
<?php
add_filter ("use_curl_transport", "__return_false");
?>

On this same topic, regarding no $_GET["tx"] but the existence of $_POST['CONTEXT']

else if ((!isset ($_GET["tx"]) && (empty ($_POST) || $_POST["auth"] || $_POST['CONTEXT'])) || preg_match ("/ty-email/", $_GET["s2member_paypal_proxy_use"]))

We have this corrected in the development version, soon to be released in s2Member v3.5.3. Thanks for everyone's assistance on this topic. This line should actually just be:

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else if (!isset ($_GET["tx"])) 

Here is what is taking place in the bug fix.
(s2Member). Bug fix. s2Member's Auto-Return/PDT handler was sometimes triggering the error `unable to verify POST vars` under special circumstances that are applicable with PayPal's Enchanced Recurring Billing service, and sometimes with Subscriptions that are paid for by credit card, instead of through a PayPal account; again related to PayPal's ERP add-on service. This has been resolved in s2Member v3.5.3+. In some special cases, PayPal® does not provide any data through PDT ( Payment Data Transfer ) and so s2Member must recover gracefully by asking the Customer to check their email. This does not affect s2Member's ability to process a Customer's transaction, but it does require s2Member's processing to take place entirely behind-the-scene via the IPN service, instead of immediately after checkout ( in a very few special cases ). This bug fix may or may not affect you, depending on what you're selling, and depending on whether you're using PayPal's ERP service or not.

can you do me a favor and post in this thread when s2Member v3.5.3 is available?

thank you.

want to see if it resolves my unable to verify post vars that i am also having now..