organization · inferred from evidence
PayPal
The organization behind the PayPal SDK and payment services.
- PayPal button click opens login overlay plus an empty popup window
The root cause is the `Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy` response header: if your site sends `same-origin`, the PayPal SDK detects it cant open popups and falls back to an iframe overlay, but the popup opens anyway, empty, on top of the overlay.
- PayPal subscriptions: 500 "Unhandled api error" from cartid API after subscription created
This one wasnt a code problem at all. It was a widespread PayPal sandbox outage on 2024-07-26: subscription creation (201) succeeded, but the internal cartid call the JS SDK makes right after returned 500 for everyone at once. A PayPal main