fsockopen

am not having a lot of success with opening a socket to a secure domain (php 4.3.8 - apache - openSSL) $fp = fsockopen($url , 443 ,$errno, $errstr, 30); have tried the following $urls ----------------------- $url = 'domain.net'; Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Reason: You're speaking plain HTTP to an SSL-enabled server port. Instead use the HTTPS scheme to access this URL, please. -------------------------------------- $url = 'https://domain.net'; Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known ------------------------------------------ $url = 'ssl://domain.net'; Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Client sent malformed Host header ------------------------------------------- $url = 'tls://domain.net'; Bad Request Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. Client sent malformed Host header Am I missing the obvious as I cannot thing of any other options ;-(( tia pete