SSL and post

[guycaris]

Hi, can anyone help me.
I need to exchange information with another server sending info using post over ssl (port 443) then reading the html reply over ssl.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks

[Erkilite]

make sure the use is accessing your website via ssl, meaning the url should start with [url]https://[/url]

in your form just use someting like this

<form action="https://www.yourdomain.com/script.php">

the 'https' will submit the info via SSL.

[guycaris]

Hi, thanks for replying.
Sorry, i didnt mention i need to do it without using a form. Does PHP have any method that will construct a post query without the use of a form.
Thanks
Guy.

[Erkilite]

look at the CURL library.

[drew010]

yeah like Erkilite said if you have curl you can try:

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://www.site.com/page.ext");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "x=1&y=2&z=3");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0); //dont verify cert
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://yoursite.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "mozilla 4.0");
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

for more curl options see http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

[guycaris]

many thanks i'll give it a go.