Re: [PHP4BETA] PHP4 and HTTPS

On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 01:57:09PM +0100, Michael S. Steuer wrote: > > |Nick Gorham wrote: > |> > |> "Michael S. Steuer" wrote: > |> > |> > Is that so? Because PHP3 wasn't able to do that... I now use > |an utility cURL > |> > (http://curl.haxx.nu) to establish HTTPS connections in PHP 3.0.12. > |> > |> We use PHP + HTTPS, Stronghold comes with it as standard, and > |all I did was to > |> rebuild it with 3.0.12, works fine. > | > |I think there's some confusion here. I think Michael is talking about > |PHP as an https client which to my (less than extensive) knowledge isn't > |possible with PHP alone. > > That's correct, i was talking about getting pages through SSL with PHP, > which absolutely doesn't support this alone. If the question was about > serving PHP pages through SSL, I never experienced any problems there! We would not be able to distribute a SSL-enabled PHP from the USA. If someone wants to write an OpenSSL module for PHP, it can be distributed separately from a country which has more sane laws than the USA. I heard on new-httpd that the USA might ease the export restrictions in January, so there is a chance that such a module might be integrated into the mainstream distribution. -- Regards, Sascha Schumann Consultant