Bug #11587: SSL'd fsockopen would be nice

From: mitja@doticni.net Operating system: PHP version: 4.0.5 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: SSL'd fsockopen would be nice While working on #5865, you could also add generic SSL socket support to fsockopen, something like fsockopen("ssl://example.com", ...) don't forget to add support for client certificates/keys, including passing the password to unlock 'em (ok, this would probably require a completely new function). for connecting to a single server, one solution is running a stunnel daemon: stunnel -c -d 127.0.0.1:1000 -r example.com:123 -p /certs/blah.pem and then fsockopen()ing to that port; however, this is both a security problem (anyone on the machine can connect to that port) and useless, if one wishes to connect to a host that is not known in advance. another option would be to allow php to talk to exec'd processes (hopefully stunnel works this way; it doesn't when piped), but this requires an extra process per request which is a resource hog. and, well, this is all in openssl already, so ... -- Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=11587&edit=1