curl error: “sslv3 alert unexpected message”

Question

Curl gives me following error:

error:140773F2:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert unexpected message

What does this mean?

Answer 1

It means bad SSL handshake. You will need to specify the version of the protocol like this:

curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);

Change 3 to 2 if you still get the error.