[Resolved] retrieving a https page

AbsolutelyFreeW

Hello,

I am trying to get a page vis SSL and this is what I have tried without any success. I'm running on php 4.3.8. Please help me:

My first try:

$url='https://www.openssl.org';
$filepointer = fopen($url,"r");
if($filepointer){
       while(!feof($filepointer)){
         $buffer = fgets($filepointer, 4096);
         $file .= $buffer;
       }
       fclose($filepointer);
       $statcode = 1;
} else {
       $statcode = 0;
}
echo $file;

this works for http pages, but not https 🙁

so I tried this:

$url = 'https://www.openssl.org/index.html';
if (!$curld = curl_init()) {
    echo "Could not initialize cURL session.\n";
    exit;
}
curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec($curld);
curl_close($curld);
echo $output;

again it works with http but not https.

both of examples give me absolute nothing. I have put a echo 'hello' in the first row, and a echo 'done' and the end and the hello and done is all I get. My final target will have lots of parameters, but for now I 'm trying to get a simple html.

Hope you can help me.. desparate now

MarkR

It will only work if you have the SSL module installed on PHP. It's a compile time option.

I believe that if it is installed, both of the above should work. Curl certainly works, I've used it with SSL.

Mark

AbsolutelyFreeW

Please look at my php info page. Can you tell if it is lacking something by this info?

http://x86.frandt.com/hello.php

Weedpacket

You don't know if you have OpenSSL installed on your machine? You haven't configured PHP for it, so PHP doesn't know about it. Did you configure cURL with OpenSSL support? Ask it. Does [man]curl_error[/man] supply any information?

AbsolutelyFreeW

thank you for helping me out. It is not my server, its run by hosting service, and their support is down right now.. hmm and well, their support not the best it seems..

I dont have telnet/ssh access, I can request it though. of the info page I linked, it says cURL has openssl support..

anyways this helped me one step closer. the error code is this:

Last known error code: 60
Last known error text: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK done

ok, do I need a cert to retrieve a page?? what do I do about this?

thanks

MarkR

The SSL certificate problem could be with the server. You do not need a certificate to retrieve a file from a HTTPS server - at least not usually.

There are probably some CURL options related to checking of certificates - I don't know what it checks by default. The simplest way is to set curl's options so it accepts any certificate.

If you want to verify the certificate, you will need to have some trusted root certificates somewhere. This may be a problem.

Mark

AbsolutelyFreeW

thanks the problem was solved with:

curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER,  0);
curl_setopt($curld, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST,  1);