Paypal Sandbox Do Direct Payment Internal Error 10001 Timeout Processing Request

Question

This is in an MVC2 project, so I\'m using C# in ASP. This is what I\'m sending to https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp:

VERSION = 65.0
SIGNATURE = AFcWxV21C7fd0         


        

Answer 1

From what I've read around, this can be a sign of malformed data. In my case, I was sending the form as

multipart/form-data

instead of

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

I hadn't read anywhere in the docs about form encoding, but as soon as I changed it the PP server got a lot more friendly.