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[Jim Musil]

I don't think you can (easily) use sockets to communicate with the HTTPS
protocol. Everything you send would need to be encrypted and everything you
receive would need to be decrypted.

This is a real pain.

Jim

On 1/29/03 3:19 PM, "Mark Armendariz" <nyphp at enobrev.com> wrote:

> Sorry, the CURLOPT_URL line got screwy:
> 
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_URL, 'https://www.url.com/');
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Armendariz [mailto:nyphp at enobrev.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:16 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] can i replace curl with sockets?
> 
> 
> To start, I'm new to the list, so hello all.
> 
> I'm working on a script that requires cURL, but I'd rather surpass the
> need for cURL as it isn't usually installed by default on servers
> (namely mine - but other servers I've been on hadn't had it installed
> either).  I realize I could try to use the command line cURL, but it's
> my understanding that that can be a security issue, and I would just
> like to handle it all within the script.
> 
> I want to mimic this :
> ------------------------------
> 
> $curl_holder = curl_init();
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_URL, <https://k> '
> <https://www.url.com/script/> https://www.url.com/');
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_POST, 1);
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $vars);
> curl_setopt ($curl_holder , CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
> 
> $server_response = curl_exec ($curl_holder );
> curl_close ($curl_holder );
> 
> print $server_response;
> 
> I've tried this:
> -----------------
> 
>  $vars = 'name=mark&user=enobrev'
> 
>  $header = 'POST /track HTTP/1.0' . "\\r\
";
>  $header .= 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' .
> "\\r\
";
>  $header .= 'Content-length: ' . strlen($vars) . "\\r\
\\r\
";
> 
>  $fp = fsockopen('www.url.com/script/', 443, $error_number,
> $error_sting);
>  
>  if ($fp) {
>    fputs($fp, $header . $vars);
>    
>   while (!feof($fp)) {
>     $response .= fgets($fp, 128);
>     fclose($fp);
>   }
>   
>   print htmlspecialchars($response);
>  } else {
>   print $error_number . ': ' . $error_sting . ' - could not connect to
> ' . $url);
>  }
> 
> And i get a whole bunch of these (which refers to the while line and the
> lines within the loop):
> --------------------
> 
> Warning: feof(): 2 is not a valid File-Handle resource
> 
> The Question
> -------------------
> 
> Am I going the right way about this, or is there a better way?  And what
> exactly is that error referring to?
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Mark Armendariz
> http://www.enobrev.com
> 
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