curl: 35 - error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

If you're running curl 7.35.0 and run into this error in php when trying to connect to a remote host:

35 - error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure

it means you need to tell curl to use sslv3 and also use the sslv3 ciphers, ensure you have these curl_setopt settings, eg:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST, 'SSLv3');