Fix Magento error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure!

by | Feb 21, 2015 | Blog, Magento | 38 comments

So you have received a version of the error: 14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure error while trying to install a Magento Connect extension?

We have your solution! It seems that this week, Magento Connect turned off SSLv3 (a good thing), but Magento still wants to connect with SSLv3 in Curl.

Just download this file and drop it over your Magento install.

1. Download this file.
2. Unzip then go to your root folder of your site (usually html, public or public_html – where you’re downloader folder sites).
3. Drop the downloader folder over it. (alternatively, you can upload the included file to the same path on your server as it is in the download.)

You can also just manually editing downloader/lib/Mage/HTTP/Client/Curl.php

After:
$this->curlOption(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
add:
$this->curlOption(CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, 'TLSv1');

Let us know if you have any questions!

38 Comments

  1. Suman K.C
    Suman K.C on February 21, 2015 at 11:24 am

    This works, Thanks. Recommended.

  2. Wellington
    Wellington on February 21, 2015 at 5:08 pm

    It works thanks!!

  3. aimbc
    aimbc on February 22, 2015 at 3:22 am

    Great fix…how did you figure that out? Thanks!

    • dwdonline
      dwdonline on February 22, 2015 at 6:11 am

      Thanks. It happened on all my servers at once and all my clients servers have SSLv3 turned off. When I saw that message – it told me it was being rejected because Magento had turned off SSLv3 (finally) on Magento Connect. This lead me to believe that the Magento ./mage or the downloader was trying to use SSLv3 with curl. Looked at the config file and tried the changes (based on my idea) and it worked.

  5. Roberto
    Roberto on February 22, 2015 at 4:52 pm

    Thanks!

    This code edit was great for me!!

    .

      • Soumah
        Soumah on February 23, 2015 at 12:37 pm

        thank you for your help

  6. Gloria
    Gloria on February 23, 2015 at 8:07 am

    Thank you so much¡¡

  7. Trail Blazer
    Trail Blazer on February 23, 2015 at 12:10 pm

    Not working

    • dwdonline
      dwdonline on February 24, 2015 at 7:16 am

      You still get that error?

  8. Soumah
    Soumah on February 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm

    Great 🙂
    thank you very much

  9. Kelly
    Kelly on February 23, 2015 at 1:13 pm

    worked like a charm, thanks!

  10. Gr3gor
    Gr3gor on February 23, 2015 at 5:22 pm

    It tooks me some time to find this post / solution!.
    Works well. Thank you

  12. Jon
    Jon on February 23, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    Thanks a bunch! I’m a Magento novice but ran into this issue the past 2 days and couldn’t figure out why the Magento Connect wasn’t working! I know it’s not the preferred way of getting extensions (as I’ve been a WP guy most of my life) but I’m still figuring out the Magento file structures.

    I edited this file with the addition of the recommending code and it worked like a charm! Thanks so much for the helpful and needed tip!

    • dwdonline
      dwdonline on February 24, 2015 at 7:15 am

      Glad it helped. It fixes it for both the Magento Connect/downloader and ssh.

  13. Harish Kumar B P
    Harish Kumar B P on February 24, 2015 at 7:04 am

    Hello there,

    I was doing a Magento Upgrade for my client. The last part of the upgrade is to install the extensions and I got stuck over there due to the exact same error. Thanks to your post, I was able to solve the issue and complete the upgrade. The client is very happy. 🙂

    Regards,
    Harish

  14. Soeb
    Soeb on February 24, 2015 at 10:34 am

    Solved the problem, thank you so much.!

  15. Daniele
    Daniele on February 24, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Thanks!!!!
    It works fine!

  16. Crow73
    Crow73 on February 24, 2015 at 11:01 am

    Thanks a lot!
    Workt just fine and solved the problem for me

  17. Victor Velazco
    Victor Velazco on February 25, 2015 at 3:35 am

    Awesome!!!
    It worked perfectly!!!

  18. Rob
    Rob on February 25, 2015 at 10:47 am

    You are a legend. Thanks

  20. Nitus
    Nitus on February 25, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    mil gracias!! De gran ayuda!!

  21. Antonio
    Antonio on February 25, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    I used the solution with add in the file “curl.php” of the string that you posted. It is perfect! very very thanks

  23. Chris
    Chris on February 25, 2015 at 3:53 pm

    Searched high and low. Finally found this post. Worked for me!

  24. Santiago
    Santiago on February 25, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    Thanks, very helpful

  25. repat
    repat on March 7, 2015 at 8:59 pm

    Thanks man, I looked everywhere for this 🙂

  26. gkiwi
    gkiwi on July 1, 2015 at 7:45 am

    It’s Awesome!
    Thank you man!

  27. shuchi
    shuchi on September 16, 2015 at 6:38 am

    HI, I am new to magento. While installing a theme to magento, I am getting the error – ” community/Interface_Frontend_Default_Modern: Unknown cipher in list: TLSv1″. I looked into the file downloader/lib/Mage/HTTP/Client/Curl.php but couldn’t find the code – $this->curlOption(CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2);
    What shall I do now?

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