I'm working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL. The following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn't calling an SSL URL), but now when I am testing it on the working server with HTTPS, it's failing with the error message "failed to open stream".
function send($packet, $url) {
$ctx = stream_context_create(
array(
'http'=>array(
'header'=>"Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
'method'=>'POST',
'content'=>$packet
)
)
);
return file_get_contents($url, 0, $ctx);
}
Try the following script to see if there is an https wrapper available for your php scripts.
$w = stream_get_wrappers();
echo 'openssl: ', extension_loaded ('openssl') ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'http wrapper: ', in_array('http', $w) ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'https wrapper: ', in_array('https', $w) ? 'yes':'no', "\n";
echo 'wrappers: ', var_export($w);
the output should be something like
openssl: yes
http wrapper: yes
https wrapper: yes
wrappers: array(11) {
[...]
}
To allow https wrapper:
php_openssl extension must exist and be enabled allow_url_fopen must be set to onIn the php.ini file you should add this lines if not exists:
extension=php_openssl.dll
allow_url_fopen = On