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Thanks.  I think I've got that sorted out.  It's now processing the transaction properly.

I'm running into a different problem now that seems to be more fundamental.  The IPN script only returns a simple text string, presumably assuming that the user is being redirected separately.  But because my payment processor presents the user with the HTML returned by the IPN script instead of redirecting the user to a separate thanks URL, the user is left stranded with a white screen and a single line of text.  I just tried using an HTTP redirect, but the processor only spits out "An Error Occurred: 302 Found".

What can I do in order to give the user the HTML returned by the thanks page?  Do I have to resort to cURL requests on my own site, or can I reroute the request once I'm done with the transaction processing?

Thanks again!

The trouble is that the Payment Express IPN uses an HTTP redirect to give the user the "thanks" page, which is apparently not an option with my processor.

I can't make sense of that - do you mean the user's browser is not returned to the ipn.php script?

That's exactly what I mean.  The processor makes the request to ipn.php itself and then presents the user with whatever HTML ipn.php returns to it.

I agree that it's a horrible way to do things, but I neither wrote nor chose the processor.  I just need to integrate with it.

Nope.  Fun, eh?

So... Do you know if it's possible to redirect a second request back through CiviCRM when it's done processing the transaction, or do I need to resort to cURL?

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EDIT: Kicked its butt with a meta refresh tag.   

Should be down to a matter of picky details now.  Thank you both for your help (and I may be back for more).