RE: [PHP] RTFM me.... Point me in the right direction...

I'm not sure if you can do this with PHP as I am new to the language, but if you can open a pipe to openssl then you should be able to pull this off by having openssl handle the SSL layer of the connection. This should allow you to do posts and gets if you formulate your request properly. Haven't tested in PHP, but I've seen perl scripts that do this. There should be some docs on OpenSSLs website about doing this. -jm -----Original Message----- From: Joe Stump [mailto:joe@earth.care2.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:53 PM To: Dallas Kropka Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] RTFM me.... Point me in the right direction... Yikes - I'm stumped ... I know fopen() is only HTTP 1.0 (maybe 1.1 now ...) but definately not SSL. One thing to look at is a little app call w3m which is like lynx only renders tables, frames, etc. - they have an SSL version of that called "w3m-ssl" you could then do "w3m-ssl-en -dump https://secure.server.com/foo.dll?var=joe" in PHP and it will return the results into the variable: soooo : $return = w3m-ssl-en -dump https://secure.server.com/foo.dll?var=joe`; would have the results of that DLL in it :O) - I guess I wasn't stumped after all... --Joe On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:00:41PM -0800, Dallas Kropka wrote: > Sorry guys, Its late here, and Im out of Jolt.... > > What Im trying to do is to make a secure connection to the Authorize.net > Credit Card Processing server. There is a specific DLL file that I need to > access on that server, and it is necessary to pass the variables to the > server through the URL which they will only allow if I have a secure > connection. But I don't know how to do this... The only other way I could do > it is if someone has / or knows of a simple way to submit a POST ...... > without an action from the user. I need to process and check the information > before I send it to the server... and I don't want to have to make the user > hit submit 2x, because that will force me to place variables in hidden > fields which could compromise the data, or my service. (IE, the Authorize > login name which must be in the post). If I could change authorization > providers I would, but it is for a client that is hell bent to stay.... > so.... how do I do either of these things: > > A) make a secure connection with a server for this purpose? > > or > > B)Submit information via a POST after processing and without a form? > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joe Stump" <joe@earth.care2.com> > To: "Dallas Kropka" <dallask@firstworld.net> > Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 10:31 PM > Subject: Re: [PHP] RTFM me.... Point me in the right direction... > > > > Ikes - what are you looking for? I'm sure the list could help. > > > > --Joe > > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 12:43:07PM -0800, Dallas Kropka wrote: > > > I need a good tutorial for creating a secure connection with another > server using SSL or SSH... SSH would be best. Please help... > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Dallas K. > > Joe Stump, PHP Hacker > > joestump98@yahoo.com > > http://www.miester.org/ > > > > Need a programmer? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joe+Stump%22I· > > kòó ¢g?Xþ~ > > ***************************************************************** > > * RENT THIS SPACE - SEEN BY THOUSANDS EACH DAY! * > > * Current Sponsor: http://www.sponsor.com > > * > > ***************************************************************** > > > > Joe Stump, PHP Hacker joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org/ Need a programmer? http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Joe+Stump%22 ***************************************************************** * RENT THIS SPACE - SEEN BY THOUSANDS EACH DAY! * * Current Sponsor: http://www.smackdown.com * ***************************************************************** -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net