Open file for reading by "https://"

Anon

Hello!
I've always been opening files for reading by "http" protcol the following way:
$csv_file="http://www.my_path.com/events/data.csv";
if ($fp = fopen ($csv_file,"r")) {
//code here
}
This works fine. Now I have to open one file which is on "https" protocol. This does not work. I must download this file nad then read it, or just read it without downloading. How can this be solved?
Tahnk you!

Anon

My "https" address looks like:

https://username:password@www.myservername.com/path/filename?querystring.

So, it seems to be correct. What is the problem then??

Anon

Annchen,
I am experiencing similar problems. I have a download script for client users to get binary files from my database.
It worked great up until I needed to secure the information via https://--
Now when the script runs, I get an error:
"The file could not be written to the cache"
I've enabled caching through the session.cache_limiter method but it does not help.
If I find any solutions I'll be sure to let you know as ASAP.

johnny

Anon

I've found that may be such thing like "curl" can help us. But, unfortunately, I don't know what's that. Do you? Or may be, some links where I can read about it?
So, now I'm trying to find smth about curl...

What I've found is (http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=116476&thread=102499):

this will output the contents of secure site to users. You need to compile php with curl library.
Or, a second chance you can run curl externally using popen command in php.

<body>
<?php

$ch = curl_init ("https://go2all.com/cgi-bin/store");
$fp = fopen ("homepage.txt", "w");

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
fclose ($fp);
?>
</body>

Anon

If you don't want to use CURL you can use fsockopen and send GET request
and receive the response

Audrus

Anon

fsockopen() gives the same result as fopen()... Oh... Thank you for advise!

kparker

fsockopen() fails here because it doesn't have any way to insert the SSL layer. That's what curl is--a library that supports SSL and HTTPS. PHP4 includes a built-in set of functions for calling curl, but you still have to have the curl libraries installed.