Posting HTTP Data to a Secure data Via PHP?

FoxhoundX

I'm wondering if there is a way to post secure data through a PHP interface.

I know it's possible with non-secure pages ([url]http://[/url]), but I have not found a way to do it with secure pages (https://). The reason being is I want to Display a balance of my paypal account, and have a cron job to update this balance automatically.

Any help would be appreciated.

rachel2004

If it must be done with PHP, consider using one of the encryption functions in PHP.

http://www.google.com/search?q=encryption+site:www.php.net&l=en

Better approach, however, may be to use SSL via a digital certificate on your web server ([url]https://[/url]).

FoxhoundX

Could you give me some addition information regarding this?

I looked into the first link you supplied, and it makes me think you have the wrong idea as to what I wish to do.

I'm not trying to submit a local form through a secure connection, I'm trying to submit a remote form (The login form on Paypal, in this instance.)

The php I use for remote [url]http://[/url] submittions is something like-

<?
$req = 'Username=Foxhoundx&Password=mypass';
$fp = fsockopen ("www.xaev.com", 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);

$header .= "POST /test.php HTTP/1.0\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
$header .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n\r\n";

fputs ($fp, $header . $req);
$content = "";
while (!feof($fp)) {
$line = fgets($fp, 1024);
$length = hexdec($line);
$content .= @fread($fp, $length);
}
fclose($fp);

Which works fine, but I don't believe it would work on a secure server.

Is there any other way I could do this? I was thinking I could make a C++ program which would do it, then execute via exec();, however, I'm unsure of how to do this as well. I could easily do it with visual basic, but I'm unsure of how to get the result to the php page. 😛

Thanks.

Weedpacket

Second-hand information tells me that (current versions of) [man]cURL[/man] provide communication via https, once the OpenSSL library is installed. PHP can also fopen() and fread() https: sites as of 4.3.0, but as you're planning on sending POST requests you'd need to do SSL protocol yourself (again, the [man]OpenSSL[/man] library is needed; in which case PHP provides functions for its use).