Https

Hello, I'm having problems with using fsockopen to post to an httpS site. i'm using port 443, and all I'm getting is a very long very very long pause. I'm trying to write a small script out to work with authorizenet/creditcard transactions and i can't establish a secure connection, i assumed that i could with fsockopen, but all i get is a pause and after awhile it just gives me a timeout error. Has anyone found a way to get this working? maybe i'm doing something wrong, heres my script: ---------------------------------------------------------codestart: $fp = fsockopen("www.domain.com", 443); if($fp){ $request_form= "x_ADC_Delim_Data=TRUE"; $header = "POST /file.html HTTP/1.0\r\n"; $header .= "User-Agent: php-authorizenet-validator-HTTP_POST/1.0 \r\n"; $header .= "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"; $header .= "Content-length: " . strlen($request_form) . "\r\n\r\n"; fputs($fp, $header . $request_form); while (!feof($fp)) { $response_form .= fgets($fp, 128); } fclose($fp); } ---------------------------------------------------------codeend: So i've got it down to the while statement, when i attempt to try and output the returned data, it fails. am i approaching this wrong since it's ssl? any help would be greatly appreciated. Ryan Sexton rsexton@buckeye-express.com ps. I'm sorry if i'm covering an old topic, I am new to this group, please accept my appologies if i haven't done my homework enough.