PayPal IPN acknowledgements failing with SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Question

With no changes on our side and perhaps related to POODLE/SSL3 our PayPal API call to PPIPNMessage::validate is now failing with.

SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTE         


        

Answer 1

Use this setting in your paypal class on calling function PPHttpPost()

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); 
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 6); //6 is for TLSV1.2