Re: Migrating to XML_RPC - SSL question

On 11/29/05, Jeff Tupholme <jeff@makemyshow.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm migrating to XML_RPC from the original phpxmlrpc 1.0.99 by Edd > Dumbill. > > Mostly it has been easy, with just the method names needing changing. > However, I sometimes use SSL and with the old library I used the method: > > xmlrpc_client->setSSLVerifyPeer(0) > > This was ultimately passed through to cURL and gave some fine-grained > control over how the SSL interaction took place. > > There doesn't seem to be an equivalent of this in the PEAR version, and > I wonder what its default behaviour is? Is there a plan to add this > functionality back in, or is there a reason why it is not needed? > > Thanks for any clarification anyone can offer. I don't want to cut over > to the new version without fully understanding the implications. > Well it looks like XML_RPC uses fsockopen to make its calls, not curl, so the same kind of thing won't work. I'm not sure how you'd fix certificate problems with fsockopen. -- Justin Patrin