PayPal Payments Up in India Again

After the suspension of payments to, from India via PayPal was announced a few weeks ago, a new blog
post on the official Paypal blog has some good news for millions of PayPal users across the country. PayPal India has announced the resumption of the payment services and has confirmed that the Reserve Bank of India has given a green signal to restart bank withdrawals for settlements for exports of goods and services. Not all is well though as personal payments are still “turned off”.

The revamped withdrawal system involves users to fill an “export code” to initiate a withdrawal. This is as per the directive of the RBI, which wants this implemented to see more control and watch over the nature of cross-border merchant transactions. This means that personal payments will remain banned till PayPal gets the approval to allow personal inward remittances to India. This is something PayPal does not have as of now. In short, personal payments will remain banned till PayPal gets these necessary approvals.

Personal payments stand banned for all Indian PayPal users (Business, Premier and Personal Account Holders). The option your overseas clients are now left with to pay you is to use the “Pay for Purchases” (Goods or  Services) tab, completing PayPal checkout at your website or by responding to PayPal “Request Money” instructions (invoices).

In any payment, when you instruct PayPal to withdraw your PayPal balance to your bank account in India, you will be required to provide a purpose code for the transaction. The purpose codes will help the RBI identify the kind of transaction you carry out. For more on the purpose codes, read this entry at the Paypal Blog.

If you happen to be a PayPal user, how has this affected you and what do you think about these new directives? Do let us know in the comments section below.

While in the recent past, hackers have attacked top government websites, including telecom regulator’s trai.gov.in, this is the first time a large IT company’s website has been hacked.

The company’s official website www.tcs.com displayed the message ‘this domain name is for sale’ for nearly three hours, before the portal was restored by around 7 am.

When contacted by ET, a TCS spokesman said the attacks happened at the domain name registrar’s end, which is Network Solutions in this case. Network Solutions is one of the top five domain name registrars on internet, managing almost 6.4 million domains.

“The TCS website www.tcs.com was disrupted. Subsequently, it has been restored and is functioning fine. None of the servers were compromised. Initial investigation reveals a DNS redirection at the domain name registrar’s end. Further investigations are on,” said a TCS spokesperson.

A denial of service attack makes a website or a computer unavailable for target users, traditionally aimed at high-profile banks, credit card companies, government portals and other corporates.

By hacking a domain name, hackers are able to redirect users of the website to a completely unrelated IP address, primarily for the purpose of phishing.

When one types the name of a website on the address bar, it travels to a domain name server (DNS) where it is looked up for the IP address that comprises of sets of numbers. This server then redirects it to the right server where the pages reside. These servers are similar to a directory which redirects all users to the right server where web pages reside.

Such denial of service could have been possible due to two-three reasons, the DNS server could have been attacked/ hacked or the cache was hijaked, taking advantage of some loopholes in the system.

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The march-past was watched by the Republic Day chief guest South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister A K Antony and the country’s top political and military brass, including UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

Patil and her South Korean counterpart arrived at the Rajpath escorted by the President’s 46 bodyguards riding well-trained, impeccably-bedecked horses.

Last week Mozilla released Firefox 3.6, the latest and greatest version of their open source Web browser. To mark the occasion, we worked with designer Chad Pugh to create a couple of brand new WordPress Personas for Firefox. Personas are like skins for your browser, and these designs are a great way to show off your WordPress colors.

The “Vintage Press” Persona is inspired by the style of the great old-time printing presses. Get it here. And the “Inkwell” Persona uses splashes of color to decorate a well-used piece of paper. Add it to your Firefox here.

RoR Developers

Understand Ruby On Rails

To understand ROR better, you need to have some prerequisites installed:
* The Ruby language
* The RubyGems packaging system
* A working installation of SQLite (preferred), MySQL, or PostgreSQL

Courtesy: http://rubyonrails.org

$email = “EMAIL”;
$pass = “PASSWORD”;
$blogID= urlencode(“BLOGGER_ID”); // like 6304924319904337556

// Do Not Modify Below Code
if(!isset($_SESSION['sessionToken'])) {

$ch = curl_init(“https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin?Email=$email&Passwd=$pass&service=blogger&accountType=GOOGLE”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION ,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER ,1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$resultArray = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$arr = explode(“=”,$result);
$token = $arr[3];
$_SESSION['sessionToken'] = $token;
}

$entry = “

Title of blog post

This is testing contnetto post in blog post.

”;

$len = strlen($entry);

$headers = array(“Content-type: application/atom+xml”,”Content-Length: {$len}”,”Authorization: GoogleLogin auth={$_SESSION['sessionToken']}”,”$entry”);

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, “https://www.blogger.com/feeds/$blogID/posts/default”);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 4);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_UNRESTRICTED_AUTH, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
$ERROR_CODE = curl_getinfo($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo ‘

’;

    print_r($headers);

    var_dump($result);

    print_r($ERROR_CODE);

    exit;
 

    ?>