[The_Demon]

Good (morning|evening|afternoon)

I am wondering if anyone can help me with a little problem I seem to be having
I am using fopen to open a stream to a url and get the meta data like so

PHP Code:

    $handle = fopen($file,"r");

    $meta_data=stream_get_meta_data($handle);

    fclose($handle); 

this works great for files that are http but not for https files. does anyone know of a way i can work around this problem so that it allows me to retrieve meta data for https files?

Thanks
The Demon

[Nico]

Do you get any errors or warnings? Try setting the error reporting to E_ALL:

PHP Code:

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1'); 

Also, this is from php.net:

When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the connection without sending a close_notify indicator. PHP will report this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the data. To workaround this, you should lower your error_reporting level not to include warnings. PHP 4.3.7 and higher can detect buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the https:// wrapper and will suppress the warning for you. If you are using fsockopen() to create an ssl:// socket, you are responsible for detecting and suppressing the warning yourself.

http://www.php.net/fopen

[The_Demon]

Thanks for the reply Nico

I tried with the code you supplied. this is the output from it

Code:

Warning: fopen(https://address.com) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in C:\scripts\general\functions.php on line 15

Warning: stream_get_meta_data(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\scripts\general\functions.php on line 16

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in C:\scripts\general\functions.php on line 17

Please note, address.com was not the actual URL

[Nico]

Can you browse to the file with your web browser? Seems like the file does not exist:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

Does it give you an error when you for example try to open https://www.paypal.com/ ?

[The_Demon]

Ah, thanks Nico, I figured that out. It was simply a single char missing lol
Now it says I need to configure my php to enable the https wrapper

Code:

Notice: fopen() [function.fopen]: Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP? in C:\......

I'm using WAMP 1.7.3 on localhost at the moment. is there a https wrapper? and if so, could you be so kind as to enlighten me on how the heck I can install/enable it

Thankyou

[Nico]

Open your php.ini file, and see if following line is uncommented:

Code:

extension=php_openssl.dll

If there's a semicolon (;) at the beginning, remove it, save the file, restart Apache, and try again.

[The_Demon]

Excellent
Many thanks