title: Magento Paypal Error - persistent Sandbox URL in payment_paypal_direct.log
body: <p>HELP! - I am trying to take a PayPal Payments Pro (Magento 1.8.1) API live and I am getting the following error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>exception 'Exception' with message 'PayPal NVP CURL connection error #35: 
  error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure' 
  in &lt;my_root_folders&gt;/app/code/core/Mage/Paypal/Model/Api/Nvp.php:986
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the payment_paypal_direct.log file I have the following for every error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2014-11-08T02:12:36+00:00 DEBUG (7): Array
  (
      [url] =&gt; https://api-3t.sandbox.paypal.com/nvp
      [DoDirectPayment] =&gt; Array
          (
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>No matter how I set the various flags for sandbox mode, my errors all show the sandbox URL for the API. I have even double checked the paypal/wpp/sandbox_flag in the core_config table in the db and it is flipping from 0 to 1 when I change the configuration in Magento's admin. </p>
  
  <p>Has anyone experienced this persistent sandbox URL? </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Sandbox Mode = OFF</li>
  <li>SSL Verification = Disabled  (have tried it enabled too, no difference)</li>
  <li>all caching is disabled (I clear cache often just in case) </li>
  <li>I reindex entire site frequently</li>
  </ul>