Title: IPN_status invalid
Last modified: September 9, 2017

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# IPN_status invalid

 *  Resolved [erisal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erisal/)
 * (@erisal)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/)
 * Hi,
    When I use IPN Simulator, I obtain “Invalid” for IPN_status. Can you help
   me please ?

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 *  Plugin Contributor [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * (@angelleye)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/#post-9484072)
 * Seems to be verifying correctly with the tests I’ve just run, and we don’t have
   any other reports of this. Is it still happening to you now? Sometimes the sandbox
   can be quirky.
 * If it’s consistently happening then I would look into your server configuration
   for cURL and OpenSSL. Can you verify what version of each you are running? This
   can be done by looking at phpinfo().
 *  Thread Starter [erisal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erisal/)
 * (@erisal)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/#post-9484682)
 * Hi and thank you for your reply.
 * I have just testing with “IPN Simulator” and I still get “Invalid” for the IPN_statut.
   But everything works fine when I make payments via Sandbox. I use your “paypal_ipn_for_wordpress_ipn_response_handler”
   hook to trigger an action and I obtain the expected result. I finally understood
   that I had to use the “Custom” field because the session parameters are not usable.
   Once this is assimilated, your “PayPal IPN for WordPress” plugin appears as a
   very useful tool: I intend to use it to allow users to buy roles and thus allow
   them to access certain information. This function exists in the “Advanced Access
   Management” plugin that I use but it does not work at this time. Well, your extension
   is of great help to me.
 *  Plugin Contributor [angelleye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelleye/)
 * (@angelleye)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/#post-9484831)
 * Happy to hear it’s working out for you! If you have a moment to [leave a review for the plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/paypal-ipn/reviews/)
   it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [erisal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erisal/)
 * (@erisal)
 * [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/#post-9485135)
 * Of course.

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 * Last reply from: [erisal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erisal/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ipn_status-invalid/#post-9485135)
 * Status: resolved