[thelist] PHP fopen https

[raditha dissanayake]

fopen urls may not be enabled. and ssl may not be correctly installed as 
you guessed.

Drew Shiel wrote:

>
> I'm doing some work in PHP (v 4.3.4), which I haven't done much of in 
> years. I'm running into a problem with the fopen() function. I'm using 
> it thus:
>
> $handle = 
> fopen("https://username:passwd@my.server.com/file.php?parameter=fred", 
> "r");
>
> And I'm getting:
>
> Warning: fopen(https://...@my.server.com/file.php?parameter=fred): 
> failed to open stream: No such file or directory in 
> /path/to/script/directory/script.php on line 8
>
> As I understand it, fopen() should see the "https://" and do the http 
> request. My hypotheses:
>
> 1) I've a glaring error in the code there.
> 2) OpenSSL support has not been compiled in.
>
> I'm testing hypothesis 1 by asking you folk. What should I be looking 
> for in the configure command returned by phpinfo() (or indeed, any 
> other method)to test hypothesis 2?
>
> Cheers,
> Drew.
>
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