Re: POST to port 443 (SSL)

> Hello, > I am trying to use the UPS Online Tools, the XML version. This requires you > POSTing an XML document to their Tools server, which is SSL enabled. I am > having a problem getting this to connect in PHP (4.0.6) on my server (Apache > 1.3.20). In my scripts, I use > $Socket = fsockopen (www.ups.com, 443, $errno, $errstr); > > if (!$Socket) > die ("Error bla bla bla"); > > fputs ($Socket, "GET /ups.app/xml/Rate HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n"); > ... > ... > If you point your browser to > https://www.ups.com/ups.app/xml/Rate you will > see a response. But this code seems to just time-out. If I change the port > 443 to port 80, I will get a response. What am I missing for it to talk to > an SSL port?? The ability to 'speak ssl' instead of plain text You should probably use the curl functions to do your post via SSL, or some other tools if using the curl funcs isn't suitable for you. Incidentally, you're doing a GET anyway when you say that the server requires a post. jason