XF 2.3 Push Notification Failure

[Sal Collaziano]

I've been seeing a new series of errors in my AdminCP over the past few days. Is anyone else getting this? Not sure what to make of it...

Server error log

ErrorException: Push notification failure: cURL error 7: Failed to connect to fcm.googleapis.com port 443: Connection refused (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html) for https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send...idKFFFo2-4u5bPdywgyPhvrUFAOvwEYArzCkejj_tYqzv src/XF/Error.php:81

Generated by: Unknown account Aug 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM

Stack trace

#0 src/XF.php(266): XF\Error->logError('Push notificati...', false)
#1 src/XF/Job/PushSend.php(244): XF::logError('Push notificati...')
#2 src/XF/Job/PushSend.php(192): XF\Job\PushSend->handleReportError(Object(Minishlink\WebPush\MessageSentReport))
#3 src/XF/Job/PushSend.php(117): XF\Job\PushSend->handleReport(Object(Minishlink\WebPush\MessageSentReport))
#4 src/XF/Job/Manager.php(275): XF\Job\PushSend->run(7.9761)
#5 src/XF/Job/Manager.php(205): XF\Job\Manager->runJobInternal(Array, 7.9761)
#6 src/XF/Job/Manager.php(89): XF\Job\Manager->runJobEntry(Array, 7.9761)
#7 job.php(46): XF\Job\Manager->runQueue(false, 8)
#8 {main}

Request state

array(4) {
["url"] => string(8) "/job.php"
["referrer"] => string(27) "https://myforumdomain.org/"
["_GET"] => array(0) {
}
["_POST"] => array(0) {
}
}

 

[ENF]

ErrorException: Push notification failure: cURL error 7: Failed to connect to fcm.googleapis.com port 443: Connection refused

That's the simple answer - your server is having trouble connecting to the target service. It doesn't say why, cURL is just reporting that it cannot make the connection as the target service is refusing the connection. I don't see any recent outages with FCM, so it could just be a intermittent communication problem upstream from your server.

We are not seeing these sort of errors at the moment. And, I don't believe it's something XF can really do anything about.

 

[Sal Collaziano]

That's the simple answer - your server is having trouble connecting to the target service. It doesn't say why, cURL is just reporting that it cannot make the connection as the target service is refusing the connection. I don't see any recent outages with FCM, so it could just be a intermittent communication problem upstream from your server.

We are not seeing these sort of errors at the moment. And, I don't believe it's something XF can really do anything about.

Thank you! I think I've got the issue figured out.