no, you wont need to encrypt or decrypt anything. its all done automatically.
here is a snippet off the php.net site
<?php
/* Send POST request to [url]https://secure.example.com/form_action.php[/url]
* Include form elements named "foo" and "bar" with dummy values
*/
$sock = fsockopen("ssl://secure.example.com", 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
if (!$sock) die("$errstr ($errno)\n");
$data = "foo=" . urlencode("Value for Foo") . "&bar=" . urlencode("Value for Bar");
fwrite($sock, "POST /form_action.php HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "Host: secure.example.com\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "Content-length: " . strlen($data) . "\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "Accept: */*\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "$data\r\n");
fwrite($sock, "\r\n");
$headers = "";
while ($str = trim(fgets($sock, 4096)))
$headers .= "$str\n";
echo "\n";
$body = "";
while (!feof($sock))
$body .= fgets($sock, 4096);
fclose($sock);
?>
if php is compiled with ssl support, you can use the wrappers, ssl:// and tls:// in fopen, fsockopen calls. otherwise you may need [man]curl[/man] to do this.
