Validate that IPN call is from PayPal?

Question

How can I validate that a PayPal IPN POST request to my specified notifyURL is indeed coming from PayPal?

I don\'t mean comparing the data to what I sent earlier, bu

Answer 1

https://gist.github.com/mrded/a596b0d005e84bc27bad

function paypal_is_transaction_valid($data) {
  $context = stream_context_create(array(
    'http' => array(
      'header'  => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
      'method'  => 'POST',
      'content' => http_build_query($data),
    ),
  ));
  $content = file_get_contents('https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_notify-validate', false, $context);

  return (bool) strstr($content, 'VERIFIED');
}