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cperciva on July 7, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: PayPal Hates Conferences – Especially OpenCamp

people being able to override the pingback url.

Why is this a problem? Someone overrides the URL; an IPN gets lost; they don't get what they paid for.

Or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?

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