After 2018 June 30th, Paypal won\'t accept non-TLS 1.2 + HTTP 1.1 requests anymore.
They created the URL https://tlstest.paypal.com/ to test if connections are OK. If we
It works on my side by changing tls://
to ssl://
which makes absolutely no sense to me, but this is also why using fsockopen
is a too low level library to just do HTTP exchanges with it (you should use a proper HTTP client library) and at the same time not configurable enough regarding TLS stuff.
With
$fp = fsockopen('tls://tlstest.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
I get :
HTTP/1.1 426 Unknown
Server: AkamaiGHost
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 267
Expires: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:49:46 GMT
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 19:49:46 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Upgrade: TLS/1.2
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Access Denied</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Access Denied</H1>
You don't have permission to access "http://tlstest.paypal.com/" on this server.<P>
Reference #18.8024a17.1529696986.1fc51318
</BODY>
</HTML>
but with $fp = fsockopen('ssl://tlstest.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
I get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 20
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:05:35 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
And then it hangs, probably because it is a keep-alive connection and the buffer is smaller than 1024 so that you do not get the following body content.
Which is probably "PayPal_Connection_OK", as it exactly matches the length displayed in Content-Length
.
This again shows that you should use an HTTP client library instead of trying to (badly) reimplement HTTP on top of fsockopen
.
For completeness, here is a working code (full credit to PatrickMevzek's answer):
<?php
$req = '';
$header = "POST / HTTP/1.1\r\n";
$header .= "Host: tlstest.paypal.com\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";
$fp = fsockopen('ssl://tlstest.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 3);
if (!$fp) {
echo $errno;
echo $errstr;
} else {
fputs($fp, $header);
while (!feof($fp))
{
$res = fgets($fp, 21); // 21 because length of "PayPal_Connection_OK"
echo $res;
}
fclose($fp);
}
?>
Here is the answer from server:
# php -f test.php
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 20
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:19:56 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
PayPal_Connection_OK