Question

I’m using the following code in PHP5 on *nix systems to call a remote URL (handover of 2 parameter to a remote system:

$fp = fopen($url, "r");
$contents = stream_get_contents($fp);
fclose($fp);

Unfortunately it fails for https (http works correctly) on Windows/IIS with the following error message (although allow_url_fopen is definitely enabled):

fopen(https://www.example.com/?method=abc&par=xyz) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No error in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\libs\externalSys.php on line 122

Hence my questions:

1. Has anyone else found a solution?

2. Are there any alternatives? Curl
   is unfortunately not
   installed/available.

Answer 1

This looks like you may not have included the php_openssl.dll in your php.ini, so https fopens will fail. Does it work with just standard http?