Unable to find the socket transport "https"

php iis fsockopen
Chris J Allen picture Chris J Allen · Dec 18, 2008 · Viewed 78.1k times · Source

I'm using this to check for the availability of a URL:

$fp = fsockopen($url, 443, $errno, $errstr);

and I get this error back...

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to https://example.com/soapserver.php:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in C:\Home etc etc....

I'm using an IIS server btw,( no its not my doing! ) so I think its something to do with not having open-ssl, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help please?

I did a phpinfo() and I do have ssl, but on IMAP and cURL, thats all.

Any ideas?

Answer

Sérgio picture Sérgio · Jan 30, 2011

Uncomment the line: extension=php_openssl.dll in php.ini

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