On 5/31/07, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Bob Hanson wrote:
> Thanks, Jay.
>
> I tried it first with a simple "http://"; call, and that worked fine. So
> unless "https:..." requires something additional in the way of
> arguments, that doesn't seem to be the issue.
>
> I'm hoping someone who has done this remembers what special installation
> issues there might be. When I look on the web I see lots of discussion,
> but it's pretty hard to figure out how much of it is currently
> applicable and how much of it is ancient history.
Was PHP built with openssl enabled? If not, that's ya problem.
phpinfo() is your friend.
-Stut
> Jay Blanchard wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>> I am new to PHP; using Apache 2.2 and PHP 5/Windows. I'd like to do
>> this:
>>
>> $x = file_get_contents("https://user:pw@xxxxxxx";)
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> Warning: file_get_contents(https://...) [function.file-get-contents]:
>> failed to open stream: Invalid argument in ... on line...
>> [/snip]
>>
>> The warning that you get is "Invalid argument..." Have you read
>> http://us2.php.net/file_get_contents to make sure that you are
including
>> all needed arguments?
>>
>>
> The URL for file_get_contents doesn't give many clues to its use with
> https.
David
