Can't download products in 3.8.9.4 #37

JustinSainton · 2012-12-20T01:43:05Z

Edited: From Visser's comment below which provides more details:

It is due to us linking to the Download File ID of a Product which becomes invalid when a store owner removes or changes the File Downloads for that Product (e.g. change of Plugin file versions, etc.).

When a customer purchases a Product they should get the File Downloads associated with that Product regardless of when they purchased it (I purchased ABC until my download number expires, not ABC v1.1 until the Product is updated).

garyc40 · 2012-12-20T03:23:34Z

The blog comment seems to be a totally different issue (one that I myself couldn't reproduce).

As for this issue, we haven't modified any file ID verification code in 3.8.9.x. If you look at this, you'll see that nothing changes in the way we verify file ID:
https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/WP-e-Commerce/blame/branch-3.8/wpsc-includes/ajax.functions.php

Is there a limit of number of downloads for that product file? Check Settings->Admin and you'll see the "Max downloads per file" field, which defaults to 1. Which means if that file has been downloaded before, it will expire.

visser · 2012-12-21T20:40:19Z

It's a 3.8.8.5 or earlier bug, it just has surfaced in testing of 3.8.9.x.

It is due to us linking to the Download File ID of a Product which becomes invalid when a store owner removes or changes the File Downloads for that Product (e.g. change of Plugin file versions, etc.).

When a customer purchases a Product they should get the File Downloads associated with that Product regardless of when they purchased it (I purchased ABC until my download number expires, not ABC v1.1 until the Product is updated).

JustinSainton · 2012-12-21T20:52:54Z

Ahh, I understand - that makes more sense than the original report. If this is something that has always been an issue in the 3.8.9 branch, I'm inclined to defer this to 3.8.10, as it's not really a regression due to a prior maintenance release, just a bug. An annoying one, to be sure.

meloniq · 2012-12-21T21:39:21Z

If I'm good remember this one persist since I remember, 3.7.5?! After purchase download links are generated for user but they are not updated within product update. (I can be wrong, didn't investigate it)

garyc40 · 2012-12-22T01:57:22Z

There doesn't seem to be a lot of urgent request for this to be fixed in the support forums so I'm inclined to say this should be dealt with in 3.8.10.

JustinSainton · 2012-12-22T01:58:04Z

Agreed

leewillis77 · 2012-12-28T18:21:40Z

I think there should be a it off a debate about how this should work. For example some store owners might not want people to get updated version of the files - they may want people just to get the version they purchased?

JustinSainton · 2012-12-28T18:25:04Z

Yeah, I see your point, there's room for it to work both ways, for sure. I'd like to avoid adding more options though. Maybe we could ping @pippinsplugins and see what format people tend to use EDD in most and default to that, having an filter in place to have it work the other way?

I suppose my assumption would be that most would operate like the App Store - purchase once, updates forever (or for some length of time, at least.) But once we get into discussing that model, we start into a completely separate enhancement ticket :)

leewillis77 · 2012-12-29T14:53:36Z

Based on a quick bit of testing, EDD works as follows:

Create product with file A attached
Customer 1 purchases product, gets a link that allows them to download file A
Admin updates product, removes File A and adds File B
Customer 2 purchases product, gets a link that allows then to download file B
Customer 1 hits their download link again, and gets a zero-byte file

I'd argue that that behaviour is broken as well since customer 1 should always be able to get file A since that's what they purchased?

instinct · 2013-01-01T03:32:27Z

Hey everybody. Happy new year!!!

My thoughts on digital downloads are as follows;

the download link that we send to the user should always download the latest version of the software - in the same way that the download link for the latest version of WordPress is always the same

(when we very first built digital download capabilities into WPEC this is the way that it used to work)

if the customer wants to download an older version they should have access to those files from their "my downloads page / your-account/?downloads=true" and grab the files from there.

I also think that digital download access should be something that can be restricted / integrated with recurring billing. Lots of people sell annual subscriptions to digital downloads and I don't think WPEC should be any different.

We probably need better versioning control in general. We can take further pointers from Pippin :)

Best,
Dan

On 30/12/2012, at 3:53 AM, leewillis77 notifications@github.com wrote:

Based on a quick bit of testing, EDD works as follows:

Create product with file A attached
Customer 1 purchases product, gets a link that allows them to download file A
Admin updates product, removes File A and adds File B
Customer 2 purchases product, gets a link that allows then to download file B
Customer 1 hits their download link again, and gets a zero-byte file
I'd argue that that behaviour is broken as well since customer 1 should always be able to get file A since that's what they purchased?

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visser · 2013-01-01T15:09:36Z

Hi Dan, agreed on point 1, point 2 as an extension for WP e-Commerce (keep core lean).

JustinSainton · 2013-01-24T19:46:49Z

Yeah, I think Dan's spot on with this one and how it should work. And to be honest, with the amount of new work @lukecarbis has put into the new User page - I wouldn't necessarily consider point #2 to be core bloat, it seems like a nice core piece of functionality to improve how this works.

That said - it sounds like this feature doesn't have a ton of traction (where several others do), so I'm considering punting to 3.9 pending a pull request.

benhuson · 2013-02-05T13:01:36Z

Like Dan, I think the default functionality should be if a product download is updated, existing users can access the updated files. This is the way I thought it actually worked.

However, I do agree with Lee that if someone has bought a product, if feels like they should have access to the exact thing they bought - that is what they paid for after all! That would involve some sort of versioning I guess.

However, at the same time, if I uploaded a file to a product, realised I had made a mistake and uploaded a replacement, I wouldn't want a customer to have access a history of all files I had uploaded.

Just a few things to think about...

garyc40 · 2013-02-15T05:48:15Z

I'm moving this to 3.9 as there has been no concrete solutions yet, and no-one has been assigned.

WordpressGok · 2013-03-28T10:10:46Z

Hey :)
I want to offer a pre-order for one of my digital product. An e-book.
So i simulated by doing an order of this product. Here no problem i get the downloadable link in the receipt e-mail and it's available too in my account.
Then i updated the digital file in the product panel option hoping it will automatically update the link in my account on " My downloadable links " .

And it happened that now there is no link, it has been deleted.
So as said above, the customer get only what he buys at this given moment, and nothing can be updated.
If i make a new version of my book and i want they can download the new version freely from their account, well they can't. They must do a new order, or i must send an e-mail with the new file to all customer from that specific product.

I'm surprised it works that way, i thought it was something available in this plugin.
I hope it will be added very soon because i will update all my books ! So it's really a problem.

Have a good day everyone and thank you for all your work :)

instinct-ray · 2014-12-08T15:44:47Z

Hey guys,

I just happen to test this feature in 3.9. I did a test of creating a downloadable product. Did a purchase, then click on "Your account" page.

The page tells me that "You have not purchased any downloadable products yet."

JustinSainton · 2014-12-08T16:08:06Z

@instinct-ray can't replicate.

instinct-ray · 2014-12-08T16:10:24Z

Scratch my comment, Once I mark the payment as accepted payment, I can see my downloads!

visser · 2014-12-08T16:27:35Z

To reproduce this issue Ray you need to now open up Edit Product for that Product you purchased (and can now download electronic downloads from) and upload a new electronic file against that Product. Then save changes to the Product. Open My Account with the User that has permission to download that Product's electronic downloads then try to download the new electronic file.

JustinSainton · 2014-12-08T16:28:36Z

Indeed, the original issue still persists. Was just confirming that @instinct-ray's issue was not a regression in 3.9.

…wnloads(), rather than a single file. Also introduces wpsc_has_downloads filter. See #37.

…nloads. See #37.

JustinSainton · 2015-06-11T22:55:05Z

I believe this is resolved now, as of #1890 and subsequent commits (ab858fc, bb1cd35, et al.).

Will likely iterate further on this for performance, but new bugs, new tickets.

JustinSainton modified the milestones: Future Release, 3.9.0 May 3, 2014

JustinSainton modified the milestones: 4.0, Future Release May 26, 2015

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…wnloads(), rather than a single file. Also introduces wpsc_has_downloads filter. See #37.

JustinSainton mentioned this issue May 26, 2015

Fix downloads issue 37 #1890

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…nloads. See #37.

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