Re: SSL
| From: | John Donagher | Date: | Sun, 04 Feb 2001 05:50:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SSL | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.dev |
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On 4 Feb 2001, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Donagher <john@webmeta.com> writes:
>
> John> If you mean the ability to have PHP talk with an HTTPS server,
> John> it already exists in the form of the CURL extension.
>
> It has been stated on the list that curl can only grab to a file, not
> to php variable. Is that (still?) the case?
>
Not the case anymore :)
> John> Access to some OpenSSL APIs is provided through the experimental
> John> openssl extension.
>
> Complete support for the OpenSSL API, including support for:
>
> fopen("https://example.com/", "r")
>
> would be a great feature to have.
>
> (As would -- perhaps optionally -- a more complete HTTP client
> implementation for fopen().)
>
> -JimC
>
Agreed.
John
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