Accessing a remote server securely

[Anon]

Hi folks,

Previously I asked if someone could help me with making a manual HTTP POST request to a remote server. Thanks for the assistance. 🙂

Now, I have a slightly more complicated problem - I need to make a manual HTTP POST to a remote server via HTTPS.

I didn't see anywhere on php.net that mentions making a secure encrypted connection to a remote server/port combo. I have a feeling that this is going to be critical to my use of PHP here, and I'm thus wondering if its theoretically possible to hack support for encryption into fsockopen().

If someone could point me in the direction of some alternatives, it'd be most handy. :-\

Thanks!

Jason

[Anon]

Yay, I found a way. I'm going to use cURL. Get it at http://curl.haxx.se/.