Although we have been reluctant to perform this change, a specific
use case can cause customers to be redirect to the Odoo DPN url
with a GET request.
This happens when a Paypal Merchant account has the feature Guest
Checkout active; in that case, a customer can pay without having
a Paypal account (using only his credit card) and will *not* be
subjected to auto-return; as detailed here:
https://www.sandbox.paypal.com/be/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/pop/help-account-optional
Request coming from that payment flow will always trigger a GET
request, causing the customer to be welcomed by a
405 - Method Not allowed
error on the Odoo server. The payment is normally correctly processed
through IPN, so this does not normally causes loss of data; however
this is not a nice way to welcome back your customer right after
they pay you.
with post.pop('custom', '{}'), if the key 'custom' is not there, it will return '{}', but if the key is there, but the value is equivalent to False, the json decode will fail.