curl ssl posting

[Anon]

Hi,
I'm trying to build a payment module for a credit card processor. I need to post through a PHP script to a HTTPS: page and capture the return comma delimited string.

My ISP has added the cURL library built with OpenSSL.

However, everytime I try to acces an HTTPS: page I get this curl error:

SSL: couldn't create a context!

Does this indicate that curl/ssl are not compiled properly?

Or do I have to do something with SSL verifications or certifications?

PLEASE HELP!!

[Anon]

hello andrew,

perhaps this function helps:

function curl_request($path)
{
$ch = curl_init ($path);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $path);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_MUTE, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec ($ch);
curl_close ($ch);
return $result;
}

hth
chris