how to get a secure socket???

Anon

Hey, a whole new world opened to me, I learned how to use fsockopen(...),

However I need to get a secure socket.

Here's the actual URL I'm trying to connect to:

https://va.eftsecure.net/cgi-bin/eftbankcard.dll?transaction

this works but the page complains that the connection must be secure:

$fp = fsockopen ("va.eftsecure.net", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

However, this doesn't work (connect) at all:

$fp = fsockopen ("https://va.eftsecure.net", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

..but of course, if you already know the answer, you'd know that doesn't work :-).

OK, so what does work? And how do you create a secure socket connection?

zhabala

Hello,
I'm not sure, but port number for https protocol usually is 443 not 80 (it's for http).

Zdenek

Anon

Look at curl. Curl is ssl compatable.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.curl.php

There is also a turial on how to do this on this website. You cannot get a secure connection over fsockopen(), (I think I could be wrong). You might be able to connect, but as far as talking... you would have to speak SSL or whatever, so try Curl. 🙂

Hope this Helps!