[Cloudrunner]

Originally Posted by caimakale

Out of curiosity, how does the way this pulls data from another website differ from my sports or weather module pulling data from a site? I am trying to trouble shoot why I can't get this data to download into my database. I am wondering if that's the problem, or if my webhost is blocking needed ports.

The cronjob add is a two fold system, during install it tells you whether or not you will be able to use this hack because it pulls the data in the same way that PayPal talks to your server, through port 80 HTTP calls. If it fails, you cannot use the system because Paypal will not be able to talk to your server at all. The second function is during actual use, it updated the exchange rates for the system daily so that should you use the exchanges they are calculated properly for that day.

If the cronjob cannot talk via port 80 via standard HTTP calls, then paypal's verification servers will not be able to talk to your server either, effectively nullifying your ability to use this system.

I wish there was something that I could do to fix that, but alas, I cannot.