Help with Fatal error: fopen(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

[meenasamy]

Hi all i have used a script that i downloaded and uses the
fopen($url,'r'); function to access a url to retrieve data and i get
this error

Fatal error: fopen(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you
forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

i checked the 'allow_url_fopen = On' in php.ini and it is set to On,
and still it didn't work

Any ideas plz??

Thank you

[Alkimake]

You have to use PHP 4.3 + and have OpenSSL .

[Meena]

what do u mean by having OpenSSL ( i understand the term but how do i
do it)??

[Alkimake]

change the line
;extension=php_openssl.dll to extension=php_openssl.dll
in php.ini file.
simply remove ";" char.

if it wont work. you can create ssl:// connection with fsockopen()
function then you can use fopen().

[Meena]

i tried the fsockopen() but i got this :
Fatal error: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname
?????

any suggestions??

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Meena wrote:

i tried the fsockopen() but i got this :
Fatal error: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: gethostbyname
?????

Looks like either a lookup problem or potentially a known bug in earlier
versions of PHP. If using the IP address of the host fails in the same
manner, see if you can capture the full failure, and compare with
similar reports on bugs.php.net.

Google for "php_network_getaddresses".