Title: May be reporting wrongly
Last modified: February 19, 2020

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# May be reporting wrongly

 *  [aris00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aris00/)
 * (@aris00)
 * [6 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/may-be-reporting-wrongly/)
 * Hey there,
 * The plugin tries to make a connection to [https://tlstest.paypal.com/](https://tlstest.paypal.com/)
   but it seems that there are no longer any DNS records for it therefore the plugin
   reports:
 * `cURL error 6: Could not resolve host: tlstest.paypal.com`
 * and concludes that TLS 1.2 is not enabled.
 * Selecting the howsmyssl endpoint in the plugin does not improve the reporting
   and again it says TLS 1.2 is not enabled.
 * However, I ran a quick script on my server to connect with curl to the howsmyssl
   endpoint and it is successfully connecting with TLS 1.2.
    (see: [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27904854/verify-if-curl-is-using-tls/50766765](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27904854/verify-if-curl-is-using-tls/50766765))
 *     ```
       <?php 
       $ch = curl_init('https://www.howsmyssl.com/a/check');
       curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
       $data = curl_exec($ch);
       curl_close($ch);
       $json = json_decode($data);
       echo $json->tls_version;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Output: `TLS 1.2`
 * Conclusion: in my system the plugin is running but not reporting correctly.

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 *  [viablethought](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viablethought/)
 * (@viablethought)
 * [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/may-be-reporting-wrongly/#post-12647839)
 * Hello –
 * Can confirm, just tried your script and my output was TLS 1.3 but the plugin 
   is reporting that it is not enabled. Maybe because it is not exactly 1.2? Not
   sure.

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 * Last reply from: [viablethought](https://wordpress.org/support/users/viablethought/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/may-be-reporting-wrongly/#post-12647839)
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