SSL Post through socket...

I'm working on an Automatic Billing system and I'm slowly realizing that what I want to do can't be done, which would cause lots of headaches for me and my company. The automatic billing system is a PHP script run on the server as a cronjob and it does all the necessary gathering of the orders and charges them. The online cc processing software is an authorize.net compatible company which requires a post to their ssl dll and it then returns an answer back and I can continue. It's called "ADC Direct Response". But the requirement here is the SSL connection and post to the dll. has anyone come up against this and is there a way to do it in a cron-job? -- Thomas Deliduka IT Manager ------------------------- New Eve Media The Solution To Your Internet Angst http://www.neweve.com/