I am trying to access the paypal webservice but I can't just use the cfinvoke tag because PayPal requires you to acces their webservice via HTTPS with an SSL certificate. I have installed the certificate on my server and tried to execute the following code:
<cfinvoke
webservice = "https://api.sandbox.paypa
method = "TransactionSearchRequest"
StartDate = "#dateadd('d', -1, now())#"
returnVariable="result"
>
And I get the following error:
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Could not generate stub objects for web service invocation.
Name: https://api.sandbox.paypal
I have talked to PayPal and they are researching how I can connect with coldfusion but they don't seem to know much about how to pass the certificate along with the ssl request in coldfusion.
Has anyone else had a problem with consuming webservices that require an ssl certificate? and How can I resolve it?
Thanks,
Scott
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here's how to install the certificate for CF (I'm on a windows platform but should be similar if you're on *nix)
for this example, "www.abc.com.cer" is the name of the certificate
1. save the cert to "C:\CFusionMX\runtime\jre\
2. open a command prompt and go to that directory
3. run this command:
keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore cacerts -storepass changeit -noprompt -alias "www.abc.com" -file "www.abc.com.cer"
4. restart CF
give it a try.
No one on EE was able to answer this question so it should be closed and I should be refunded my points. However, I have not been idly waiting for an answer, and I thought I would share the following information with anyone who may be experiencing this problem:
I have talked to Macromedia's senior technical support, and Macromedia says there is no way to access the Paypal API using standard coldfusion tags because Coldfusion does not support the inclusion of a client ssl certificate(which paypals api security requires) in cfhttp tag or in the cfinvoke functionality (and they made it clear they were not planning on fixing this anytime in the near future).
But it is possible to have a cfx tag (or a set of cfx tags) created to handle the PayPal soap api calls.
Several eBay executives came to visit our company yesterday (10/19/2004) and I brought this up to them, and they indicated it would be worthwile for eBay to invest in developing such a CFX tag for the coldfusion developers in the eBay/Paypal developer comunity to use.
-Scott
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by: Tacobell777Posted on 2004-06-30 at 15:32:17ID: 11441705
When you access those urls with the browser it returns nothing, first make it return a result in your browser to make sure it really works..