SSL requirement for PayPal Express

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I'm using paypal-express https://github.com/nov/paypal-express gem for PayPal Express payments.

I send only information about item - title, price, quantity, currency to paypal to checkout in paypal site. Later I get response to my site about successful or not payment. Should I need SSL(https) to establish that?

Now it works on sandbox, but it fails for real payments:

PayPal API Error: 'Security error'
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I don't think your error has anything to do with SSL. It's your PayPal credentials that are not correct.

To make a real payment, not Sandbox, you will need make sure this code is not being executed in your initializer:

Paypal.sandbox!

And you will need to be using an API Signature for a live PayPal account. Remember, you can't make a live payment with a Sandbox account, and you can't make a Sandbox payment with a live account's API signature.

I have put together an example app that uses this gem, that you might find useful. It's in a public repo on github.