Help with IPN from Paypal

Hi,

we really could need some help. We are currently getting the last items customized for our store to go live however we lately (few months?) experience IPN issues with paypal sandbox.

Here is the log entry when using the IPN Simulator from Paypal Developer Portal:

03-24-2016 @ 12:06:23 – Checking IPN response is valid
03-24-2016 @ 12:06:23 – IPN Request: Array
(
[body] => Array
(
[cmd] => _notify-validate
[payment_type] => echeck
[payment_date] => Thu Mar 24 2016 08:05:55 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
[payment_status] => Completed
[address_status] => confirmed
[payer_status] => verified
[first_name] => John
[last_name] => Smith
[payer_email] => [email protected]
[payer_id] => TESTBUYERID01
[address_name] => John Smith
[address_country] => United States
[address_country_code] => US
[address_zip] => 95131
[address_state] => CA
[address_city] => San Jose
[address_street] => 123 any street
[business] => [email protected]
[receiver_email] => [email protected]
[receiver_id] => [email protected]
[residence_country] => US
[item_name] => something
[item_number] => AK-1234
[quantity] => 1
[shipping] => 3.04
[tax] => 2.02
[mc_currency] => USD
[mc_fee] => 0.44
[mc_gross] => 12.34
[mc_gross_1] => 12.34
[txn_type] => web_accept
[txn_id] => 974804978
[notify_version] => 2.1
[custom] => xyz123
[invoice] => abc1234
[test_ipn] => 1
[verify_sign] => AVdgirY-u.4MWt6Zdy3yvzIn.G.kA1qs6gJc-PhHAD23OFHbVTqZr458
)

[timeout] => 60
[httpversion] => 1.1
[compress] =>
[decompress] =>
[user-agent] => WooCommerce/2.5.5
)

03-24-2016 @ 12:06:23 – IPN Response: WP_Error Object
(
[errors] => Array
(
[http_request_failed] => Array
(
[0] => error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure
)

)

[error_data] => Array
(
)

)

03-24-2016 @ 12:06:23 – Received invalid response from PayPal
03-24-2016 @ 12:06:23 – Error response: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

Now, I read a lot about it and it seems it has to do with latest changes from paypal reg. Poodle problem and we understand this is going to go live soon so we really have to fix this issue on our end.

Now, we have tried download new root certificate as indicated here https://devblog.paypal.com/paypal-ssl-certificate-changes/
but nothing seems to work for us.

We are running our own Windows 2012 server with php 5.4 installed through IIS. Per default (as far is I know) Windows 2012 is already supporting SHA256 and all.

Any suggestion what else we could try or tackle this problem ? This is currently preventing is from go live so a big hurdle to take.

thanks so much in advance.

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