file_get_contents returns error when using https://

How can I avoid this error

[B]Warning[/B]: file_get_contents(): SSL: fatal protocol

Code (markup):

is there something else I can use instead? The script brings up the correct information though

 

Do a string search in your $url first and if it contains HTTPS skip it.

 

that would be one way to avoid the error, but I want to use https! Maybe I will just replace the error so it doesnt show up

 

don't know if this will work - but maybe you could try fsockopen - fwrite - fgets combination for this url instead?

check out the example here - http://www.php.net/function.fsockopen

Most likely the port will be 443 though.

Please let me know if this works after you've tried it

 

Just found a little note at php.net - "As of PHP 4.3.0, if you have compiled in OpenSSL support, you may prefix the hostname with either 'ssl://' or 'tls://' to use an SSL or TLS client connection over TCP/IP to connect to the remote host. "

My assumption is that maybe the solution could be

$host = 'ssl://hostname.com';
$path = 'file1.php';
$fp = fsockopen($host,443); 
fputs($fp,"GET $path HTTP/1.1\r\n"); 
fputs($fp,"Host: $host\r\n\r\n"); 
while(!feof($fp)){ 
echo fgets($fp,1024); 
fclose($fp);

PHP:

please tell me if that works

 

Nah, I couldnt get it to work. I will probably str_replace it

 

does php4 not support https by defaul?