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Well..it never fails..toil at something for hours, days, finally give up and post for tech support..aaaand figure it out.

For starters, right after I posted my issue, I found this:

404 error for thankyou page return URL + encrypted download link not working

..which led me to believe that possibly I wasn’t on the right type of server, or my host was doing something to block the paypal response.

NOW, I’m not sure if anyone else is having this issue, or if this is something peculiar to my server setup only, but I was going to try to go outside of the whole wordpress framework, and setup a static .html thank you page, though I wasn’t sure the shortcode would work for the product download details (probably wouldn’t)…

Then I thought I’d try one last thing..I removed the trailing slash from my permalink structure, thus:

[http://www.mydomain.com/page-name/]

became

[http://www.mydomain.com/page-name]

I did yet another test transaction…SUCCESS!!! Transaction details displayed on the page! No 404 error!!

Again, not sure if anyone else is experiencing this..I would be curious to know, because the trailing slash on permalinks is pretty common, and in fact, I think it is recommended? In any event..I won’t be using it from here forward.

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