Title: Gold Cart Errors
Last modified: March 1, 2018

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# Gold Cart Errors

 *  [shaunmesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaunmesh/)
 * (@shaunmesh)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/)
 * Hi,
    After the update that Authorize.net put into place at midnight on 2/29 to
   discontinue TLS >1.2 support, I have been unable to process payments on my site
   using the Authorize.net portal. Any time I try to process a payment, I get the“
   default” error message:
 * > “There was an error contacting the payment gateway, please try again later.”
 * I’ve updated my server to force all handshakes to use only TLS 1.2, and updated
   the authorize.merchant.php file to talk to api2 and secure2 endpoints, but am
   still not having any luck processing payments.
 * My error logs are not providing any error messages related to purchases, and 
   after multiple attempts to test both in active and test states, the error message
   never provides valuable information.
 * Can anyone tell me what version Gold Cart is currently on? The site uses GC v
   2.9.8, but I’ve seen references to a version 3+?
 * Is there anything else I might be missing?
 * Best,
    Shaun
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fgold-cart-errors%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [shaunmesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaunmesh/)
 * (@shaunmesh)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10029545)
 * Edit – I just purchased GC v 3.2.1, and I am still getting the same errors.
 *  [albertandbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertandbrown/)
 * (@albertandbrown)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10033957)
 * We are on WP-E-commerce v 3.13.1 and Gold Cart v2.9.9 – can you tell me what 
   Gold Cart v3.x adds?
 *  [Tim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timstl/)
 * (@timstl)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10040800)
 * Did you happen to figure this out? We’re having the same issue with updated Gold
   Cart and WP e-Commerce.
 * Thanks,
 * Tim
 *  Thread Starter [shaunmesh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shaunmesh/)
 * (@shaunmesh)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10040881)
 * **[@albertandbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertandbrown/)** I 
   could not see that anything on the admin side had been updated. Perhaps a new
   payment method had been added, or some code had been added to the plugin to account
   for some of the new endpoints for some of the payers.
 * **[@timstl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timstl/)** We did get it working,
   at least for now. We did three things,
       1.  1) We switch over to AIM/CIM/ARB from in the cURL call in Authorize.net 
          2.0
    -  1.  2) Not a great solution, but we edited the files used by the plugin to create
          the cURL call to force a TSL1.2 connection – merchants/wpec_auth_net/classes/
          anet_php_sdk/lib/shared/AuthorizeNetRequest.php & gold-cart/merchants/wpec_auth_net/
          classes/anet_php_sdk/lib/net/authorize/util/HttpClient.php to add `curl_setopt(
          $curl_request, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 6);` to the last line of the cURL build.
          You could grep or locally find any instances of `curl_setopt`
    -  1.  Forced the server to only send TSL 1.2 connections.
 * I would definitely test your connections using the code on this forum post: [https://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/Integration-and-Testing/Unknown-SSL-protocol-sandbox-SSL-false/td-p/57992](https://community.developer.authorize.net/t5/Integration-and-Testing/Unknown-SSL-protocol-sandbox-SSL-false/td-p/57992),
   and run some tests using the [https://www.ssllabs.com](https://www.ssllabs.com)
 * Also take a look at the information provided by Authorize.net for the changes
   they made on 2/18: [https://support.authorize.net/authkb/index?page=content&id=AL228&actp=LIST_RECENT](https://support.authorize.net/authkb/index?page=content&id=AL228&actp=LIST_RECENT).
 * There are a lot of moving parts, hopefully some of this helps you out.
 * Best,
    Shaun
 *  [albertandbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertandbrown/)
 * (@albertandbrown)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10041114)
 * Thanks Shaun, was wondering if we should pay for the GC upgrade yet. Happy to
   pay for development, but I’m getting worried about the future of WP-ecommerce
   as a platform
 *  [Tim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timstl/)
 * (@timstl)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10041116)
 * Thanks. I tried the curl_setopt route, too, with no luck. Ours turned out to 
   be an old version of curl and updating the server fixed the issue.
 * Thanks,
 * Tim
 *  [albertandbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/albertandbrown/)
 * (@albertandbrown)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10041740)
 * I found this feature listing at github.
    [https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/Gold-Cart](https://github.com/wp-e-commerce/Gold-Cart)

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gold-cart-errors/#post-10041740)
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