Re: Reading files over SSL using fopen or fsockopen

At 14:35 11.03.2003, Dan Mullen said: --------------------[snip]-------------------- >I am trying to read the contents of a file using fopen or fsockopen over a >secure SSL connection. I have a script working fine over a non-SSL >connection, but it just won't work over SSL. I have tried using fsockopen >with the port set to 443, (I have checked this and the file I am trying to >read is on a server where the secure port is set to 443). > >I am using PHP 4.3.0 on a Linux machine with OpenSSL installed. Has anyone >got any ideas how I might be able to get this working? If it's not possible >to read files over SSL using PHP, I will need to come up with another >solution pretty quickly, so any help is much appreciated. --------------------[snip]-------------------- You can't simply do a read on port 443, you need to make an SSL connection - there's a lot more to it that just changing ports. Have a look at cURL - this will get you the task done, without effort. -- >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger (\) ICQ #13394035 ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/