Re: fsockopen

Last two examples are fine as connection is obviously established, it is the communication with server that is causig an error. Read http protocol documentation. You do not want such a degree of control over communication you can just use file_get_contents($url); where $url is "http(s)://your.domain.net/dir/file..." - standard url regards, Bostjan On Tuesday 01 February 2005 18:17, pete M wrote: > 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