paypal problem

I tried purchasing an upgrade from Boxer Software. Filled in their form,  
click the button to take me to PayPal which then says it can't find the  
page, try again.
The URL is carrying some encrypted baggage that ties to the transaction /  
session and possibly the browser.
I am speculating that this url is getting munged by Opera.
Identifying / masquerading as other browser does not seem to make a  
difference.
With FireFox the same transaction proceeds without problem.
Same thing happened purchasing from Eltima Software.
9.26 8833 XP

if it were a firewall issue why would FF and Opera act differently??

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Fritz Oppliger scribed:

>
>I tried purchasing an upgrade from Boxer Software. Filled in their form,  
>click the button to take me to PayPal which then says it can't find the  
>page, try again.
>The URL is carrying some encrypted baggage that ties to the transaction /  
>session and possibly the browser.
>I am speculating that this url is getting munged by Opera.
>Identifying / masquerading as other browser does not seem to make a  
>difference.
>With FireFox the same transaction proceeds without problem.
>Same thing happened purchasing from Eltima Software.
>9.26 8833 XP
>
>if it were a firewall issue why would FF and Opera act differently??

It's Paypal, not you. Or me. I haven't looked at their code, but you can bet
that if it works in IE, FF and Safari, but not Opera, they're limiting
access to the other browsers, but not (sniffle) Opera.
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Hot Badger Deluxe scribed:

>On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:17:46 -0700, Ed Jay wrote:
>
>> Fritz Oppliger scribed:
>> 
>>>
>>>I tried purchasing an upgrade from Boxer Software. Filled in their
form,  
>>>click the button to take me to PayPal which then says it can't find
the  
>>>page, try again.
>>>The URL is carrying some encrypted baggage that ties to the
transaction /  
>>>session and possibly the browser.
>>>I am speculating that this url is getting munged by Opera.
>>>Identifying / masquerading as other browser does not seem to make a 

>>>difference.
>>>With FireFox the same transaction proceeds without problem.
>>>Same thing happened purchasing from Eltima Software.
>>>9.26 8833 XP
>>>
>>>if it were a firewall issue why would FF and Opera act
differently??
>> 
>> It's Paypal, not you. Or me. I haven't looked at their code, but you
can bet
>> that if it works in IE, FF and Safari, but not Opera, they're limiting
>> access to the other browsers, but not (sniffle) Opera.
>
>I use PayPal regularly, and it works quite happily with Opera.

I can log in and use PP from its home page; however, if I'm forwarded to PP
to make a transaction, e.g., from eBay, I can't login., I get a Page not
Found error. OTOH, if I do the eBay thing with IE et al, when forwarded to
PP, I can login just fine. 
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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:21:18 -0700, Hot Badger Deluxe  
<watercress@spamcop.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:17:46 -0700, Ed Jay wrote:
>
>> Fritz Oppliger scribed:
>>
>>>
>>> I tried purchasing an upgrade from Boxer Software. Filled in their 

>>> form,
>>> click the button to take me to PayPal which then says it can't find
the
>>> page, try again.
>>> The URL is carrying some encrypted baggage that ties to the  
>>> transaction /
>>> session and possibly the browser.
>>> I am speculating that this url is getting munged by Opera.
>>> Identifying / masquerading as other browser does not seem to make
a
>>> difference.
>>> With FireFox the same transaction proceeds without problem.
>>> Same thing happened purchasing from Eltima Software.
>>> 9.26 8833 XP
>>>
>>> if it were a firewall issue why would FF and Opera act
differently??
>>
>> It's Paypal, not you. Or me. I haven't looked at their code, but you  
>> can bet
>> that if it works in IE, FF and Safari, but not Opera, they're limiting
>> access to the other browsers, but not (sniffle) Opera.
>
> I use PayPal regularly, and it works quite happily with Opera.
>
>
I remember it working with PayPal too. And obviously it is still working  
fine for many .

I tried pasting the URL picked up by Opera from the [proceed to PayPal]  
button into  FF and IE but got the same error.  If anyone at Opera is  
interested I'd be willing to run more tests .
I'm sure I could find a cooperative vendor site owner to do this.
Fritz


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Ed Jay <edMbj@aes-intl.com> wrote:

> I can log in and use PP from its home page; however, if I'm forwarded to
PP
> to make a transaction, e.g., from eBay, I can't login., I get a Page not
> Found error. OTOH, if I do the eBay thing with IE et al, when forwarded to
> PP, I can login just fine. 

Being forced to go into PayPal directly had also been happening to me
for a long time until a couple of weeks ago, when with 9.26 I was able
to go straight to it from the auction without the usual blockage
(sample of one).