fopen() - secure

[lazzerous]

you know if fopen() has any problems opening a secure (https) url for reading?

Yes, I quadruple checked the url that I'm using to make sure it's correct (not the one shown below for security reasons)

here's my code:

<?

if(!($myFile=fopen("https://secure.whatever.com/secure.php","r")))
{
echo "The billing interface is currently down for maintenance.";
exit;
}

while(!feof($myFile))
{
// Read each line and add to $myLine
$myLine.=fgets($myFile,255);
}

fclose($myFile);

echo "'$myfile'";
?>

[intenz]

Try...

$content = implode( '', file( 'https://secure.whatever.com/secure.php' ) );

[lazzerous]

No go...

Warning: readfile(https://link.removed): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

and yes, I have triple checked the url I am using to make sure it is valid...

[intenz]

Weird.

[antun]

I just had the same problem. I found this on the php site:

http://us4.php.net/function.fopen#24870

Apparently you can't fopen() https locations before PHP 4.3.

-Antun

[bowchow79]

Originally posted by antun
I just had the same problem. I found this on the php site:

http://us4.php.net/function.fopen#24870

Apparently you can't fopen() https locations before PHP 4.3.

-Antun

Is there any way to access an https connection with PHP < 4.3, like say 4.1? The server I'm developing on has 4.1 and I doubt I can get them to upgrade. I've tried using cURL, but can't get it to install, most likely due to the server and my lack of permissions - I doubt I can't seem to install anything that I could run from a command line, in or out of a script. Any other ideas?

[AstroTeg]

Ouch...

My first thought was sockets. But that can get ugly (and might as well curl since all the socket work is done for you).

Another option is to see if wget or lynx is installed (these run from the command prompt). Its possible to have PHP launch these using the exec() command and have one of these tools save the output and you can parse that. Its not the smoothest way to do it, but it just might work. I'm pretty comfy with lynx so let me know if you need help with that (wget is pretty easy from what I've seen, but I haven't used it).

[bowchow79]

Originally posted by AstroTeg
Ouch...

My first thought was sockets. But that can get ugly (and might as well curl since all the socket work is done for you).

Another option is to see if wget or lynx is installed (these run from the command prompt). Its possible to have PHP launch these using the exec() command and have one of these tools save the output and you can parse that. Its not the smoothest way to do it, but it just might work. I'm pretty comfy with lynx so let me know if you need help with that (wget is pretty easy from what I've seen, but I haven't used it).

lynx isn't installed, but it appears wget is. I had no clue such a utility existed, let alone what it was called. At least now I have some hope, but as you said, I would have prefered a nice solution completely within php. I'll start looking for how to use wget and interface it with my script.

On a side note, there are lots of packages that support https on the server I'm developing on, just they're all in java or perl - infact, there's already an entire perl function written that does exactly what I want to do in PHP. Is there any way I can use this perl function from within PHP?

[AstroTeg]

There's ways to get PHP to talk to and use Java. I've looked into it out of curiosity, but haven't tried it (do a search for Java on php.net). I'm not sure if that would help.

As for Perl, I thought there was a way for PHP to use Perl libraries but I haven't had any luck in making that work. I may have been dreaming, but I thought it was possible. If the Perl function is just in straight Perl, I'd think you'd have to convert the Perl syntax to PHP and then some how include the Perl libraries its using (which I thought could be done, but haven't figured out how).

[keith73]

use the system command in php to send parameters to a perl script that does the get request for you. that perl script should be using LWP to fetch pages remotely and it can handle secure connections.

• keith

[bowchow79]

Hmm...wget, despite the fact that it says it supports https, doesn't seem to. It keeps thinking the https connection is an ftp one, and gets messed up from there. Man this is frustrating.

[nicolem]

Did you find a solution to this .. it's driving me crazy!

[lazzerous]

wow... this was six months ago.
I know I didn't find a direct solution, so I prolly ended up altering my application to work around the problem...

Sorry man...

[fredouille]

CURL is the only way to open ssl urls

[nicolem]

Could someone post a solution please. I've tried to use CURL but it still won't open.

Thanks