RE: [PHP4BETA] PHP4 and HTTPS

>===== Original Message From Sascha Schumann <sascha@schumann.cx> ===== >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. I believe that this cURL app also comes in library-form. So writing an module to interface wouldn't be to hard, I think. It can do many cool things, interacting with HTTP, HTTPS and proxy's, interfacing with FTP server's, and with Telnet and Gopher. I don't know how to write PHP modules, but maybe one of the 'experts' can have a glance at it. Regards, Michael Steuer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. **************************** Visit my web-sites: http://www.buycomp.nl/ http://www.bmwebservices.nl/ ****************************