Problem with fopen and sending POST vars

Hello everyone! I have a problem sending POST vars via fopen. It was possible for me to send some xml data but that's all. Anyone know how to send POST vars? Big probleme here is also that i have to connect via SSL. Many thanks for any help. Greetings Barry Here is my code: <? # generating xml for testing $request_data = "<xml><data>blablubb</data></xml>"; # array with the options to create stream context $opts = Array(); # compose HTTP request header $header .= "User-Agent: PHP Script\\r\\n"; $header .= "Content-Type: text/xml\\r\\n"; $header .= "Content-Length: ".strlen($request_data)."\\r\\n"; $header .= "Connection: close"; # define context options for HTTP request $opts['http']['method'] = 'POST'; $opts['http']['header'] = $header; $opts['http']['content'] = $request_data; # create stream context $context = stream_context_create($opts); $fp = fopen ("https://easy-demo.tcinternet.de/hosting/servlet/Dispatcher","r",false,$context); if (!$fp) echo "error"; else

    {
        $vars= explode ("&",stream_get_contents($fp));
        foreach ($vars as $key => $value)
            {
                $var = explode ("=", $value);
                $tcph[$var[0]] = urldecode($var[1]);
            }
    }

print_r($tcph); ?>