SSL support for fsockopen

[tech_support]

I'm trying to get an SSL connection using fsockopen but it's giving me this error.

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.domain.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in [__my path__] on line 291

Here's my fsockopen code:

function sendToHost($host,$port=80,$method,$path,$data,$useragent=0)
{
    $buf='';
    // Supply a default method of GET if the one passed was empty
    if (empty($method)) {
        $method = 'GET';
    }
    $method = strtoupper($method);
    $fp = fsockopen($host, $port,$errNo,$errStr);
    if (!$fp)    {
        die('<div class="error"><strong>PHP:</strong> Error connecting to '.$host.'</div>');
    }
    if ($method == 'GET') {
        $path .= '?' . $data;
    }
    fputs($fp, "$method $path HTTP/1.1\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Host: $host\r\n");
    fputs($fp,"Content-type: application/x-www-form- urlencoded\r\n");
    fputs($fp, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n");
    if ($useragent) {
        fputs($fp, "User-Agent: MSIE\r\n");
    }
    fputs($fp, "Connection: close\r\n\r\n");
    if ($method == 'POST') {
        fputs($fp, $data);
    }

    while (!feof($fp)) {
        $buf .= fgets($fp,128);
    }
    fclose($fp);
    if (empty($errStr))    {
        return $buf;
    }
    else    {
        return $errStr;
    }
} 

Normal HTTP connections work, but not HTTPS connections. It says I need to configure it in PHP, but I don't know where to start.

I'm lost.

[Master_script_maker]

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/functio...open.php#75388
Check here

[tech_support]

Same error.

Oh, and BTW, here's how I use the function:

echo sendToHost('ssl://www.domain.com/',443,'POST','/index.php',''); 

[thetestingsite]

Well, there's nothing wrong with the function; but if you need to get rid of the trailing slash on the host name in the last code you posted. I have not received that error that you describe in your first post, but I did receive a Bad Request error (connecting to paypal.com using ssl on port 443). I will look at my php.ini file to see what there could be in there that would make it show that error.

Hope this helps for now.

[tech_support]

Hm... Thanks. I'm still having the same error though.

[thetestingsite]

Just a quick question; are you on a windows or a linux server and what version of php do you have installed? Either way; if you have php4, ssl will not work with fsockopen; however, if you have php5, you need to have the openssl module installed/enabled.

Hope this helps.

Edit:
check the following websites to get more information:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Unabl...ient=firefox-a

[tech_support]

I'm developing this thing on a Windows server, but moving it into a Linux server. Both have PHP5 installed with OpenSSL.

[thetestingsite]

Not sure then. All of the documentation and whatnot state that you have to have the OpenSSL php module enabled for it (ssl connection using fsockopen) to work properly. Other than what I have stated above, I have no idea.

[tech_support]

Yeah. It's strange. Here's my phpinfo() output if anyone's interested.
http://home.alotofstuffhere.com/phpinfo.php

[thetestingsite]

Ok, it looks as if you do not have the openssl module for php installed/enabled. Take a look at my phpinfo and compare. If you are running it on a Windows server (I assume you are using a WAMP server program on your personal computer), you will have to enable it in your php.ini file. It would be under extension=openssl.dll (Windows) or extension=openssl.so (Linux).

Hope this helps.