PHP OpenSSL question

Hi, I have loaded the appropriate keys: //load keys $ca_file = openssl_x509_read('file://'.$ca_file); $public_key = openssl_pkey_get_public('file://'.$public_key_file); $private_key = openssl_pkey_get_private('file://'.$private_key_file); and can successfully encrypt data: $to_send = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <epp xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:epp-1.0 epp-1.0.xsd"> <hello/> </epp>'; openssl_public_encrypt($to_send, $message, $public_key); I then write the encrypted data to the socket using socket_write (when communicating with a server) but the server disconnects me when I attempt to read its output with socket_read: Warning: socket_read() unable to read from socket [54]: Connection reset by peer Any idea why? To what I understand, I might need to do a SSL handshake first? How can that be done with PHP? Thanks a lot! Pierre-Luc Soucy