fsockopen to SSL address giving "no SSL support" error

General Web Coding PHP and MySQL
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To implement an online payment script, I’m trying to connect via PHP to an https address using fsockopen. I get this error:

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: no SSL support in this build

Yet, when I use phpinfo() I see SSL support is installed and enabled for the domain. I found many similar posts on forums across the 'net, but few solutions. I haven’t rewritten the code to use curl yet given that I see from the libcurl documentation that I’ll need SSL support for it, too.

Is SSL not really supported? Suggestions?

Thanks,
Tim

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Might need JH to open a port from the server to the payment gateway.

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https is normally standard and not an issue, the problems comes more with windows php builds, I am not sure how to workaround.

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Thanks for the suggestions. Stephen, you’re correct in assuming this site is on a Windows server…wincf I think.

I tried switching the site to php 5. I get a different error:

fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://site.example.com :443 (Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)

This time, when I run phpinfo() SSL doesn’t seem to be listed. Perhaps I need to update my php.ini? I’ll submit a ticket for a current version.

Tim

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The custom php.ini and enabling the openssl extension did the trick. Now, back to debugging my php!

Tim