I am playing around with Paypal REST(php) enviroment and i like to play around with the sandbox webhooks.
Is it possible to use paypal sandbox webhooks with a local setup? http://localhost/test
is a invalid url
any suggestions?
I am playing around with Paypal REST(php) enviroment and i like to play around with the sandbox webhooks.
Is it possible to use paypal sandbox webhooks with a local setup? http://localhost/test
is a invalid url
any suggestions?
As @zeyu says, you can't do it directly. Another service that you can use to achieve this is https://ngrok.com/. Hope it's useful for someone!
It will give you a link something like this: http://75z929f4.ngrok.io
, which I set to a development ENV variable of APP_HOST
.
And popped into the webhook as such:
def generate_url
values = {
business: ENV["PAYPAL_ACCOUNT"],
cmd: '_xclick',
return: ENV["APP_HOST"] + @return_path,
custom: @user.id,
upload: 1,
invoice: Time.now,
currency_code: 'GBP',
amount: @price,
no_shipping: 1,
item_name: self.purchase_name,
item_number: @product_id,
quantity: 1,
notify_url: ENV["APP_HOST"] + @notify_path,
on0: ('Coupon Code' if @coupon_code.present?),
os0: @coupon_code
}
"#{ENV["PAYPAL_URL"]}/cgi-bin/websr?" + values.to_query
end
Final note, you'll need to update the APP_HOST
every time you re-run ngrok as you'll get a new identifier from them. That'll link everything up so you can send this request from localhost and have the response return successfully.
no, it doesn't work in this way, cuz localhost is not a valid address for paypal webhook. however, you can try it with requestbin, requestbin . remember using https instead of http while setting the webhook url up.
The simplest way to test a webhook for me is https://webhook.site/. The services proposed in other answer was overkill to me.
It is a single page, simple, no login. It will receiver webhooks in real time and provide needed informations (body, headers...)