title: Payment Timeouts - Showing 504 Gateway Timeout
body: <p>We have a cpouple of sites using website payments standard and are submitting the forms as a post to the <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr</a> address</p>
  
  <p>some customers (not all) are experiencing a timeout when trying to get to the paypal payment page after the post.</p>
  
  <p>The site sits and status bar says 'waiting for www.paypal.com'
  The web Inspector on chrome shows a 504 Gateway Timeout error after 1 minute and then the user gets sent to a paypal page with a paypal debug-id down at the bottom</p>
  
  <p>This is intermittent, sometimes there are no problems at all then sometimes a user cant get through, so we try at the same time and have no problem</p>
  
  <p>has anyone else seen anything like this?</p>
  
  <p>any ideas?</p>
  
  <p>paypal support are 'looking into it' and said it couldb e a 'problem with our endpoint api' ... all we do is post to them and and then they send back a pdt/ipn when complete. and it works from different locations at the same time one person is down, someone accross thr country is fine, its like when there is a problem, the www.paypal.com address cannot be found by the browser trying to connect</p>