Secure Socket connection

[arcadis]

Hi all,

i have a very strange coding problem. I need to connect to a SSL socket with PHP and use a certificate to authenticate this client connection.
Opening a socket isn't the problem: fsockopen()
opening a secure socket isn't a problem neither: fsockopen(ssl://hostname, port)
But now the question is how i can connect and than verify the client with the server using a standard X.509 certificate.
Is there anyone who knows how to use the ssl features in fsockopen or does anyone have a clue on where to start?
The openssl docs in the php manual didn't help me much so that's why i'm coming here.

Oh BTW: It isn't a regular HTTP connection but a normal socket connection. Don't think anyone would have missed that, but it saves useless rectification messages.

Thanks in advance,

Maarten

[nashirak]

Havent messed around too much with it, but try the curl libraries instead of a standard socket. Curl Supports SSL and certificates:

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

Hope this helps

[arcadis]

I've looked upon that one too, but it seems that cURL only supports HTTPS connections and not the standard SSL connect. I've been to the cURL website and it says that SSL/SSH features still have to be implemented.
I have to make a normal socket connection but it doesn't seem to be supported in curl.