Comments on: PHP – Downloading a File from Secure website (https) using CURL

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:57:23 +0000

Hello Anil,
There can be 2 reasons:
1) PHP openssl extension is disabled:
It doesn\’t matter whether the server being called is running on IIS or Apache. This error arises because of PHP is not compiled with OpenSSL and/or php_openssl extension is not enabled. In this case just uncomment and it will work.
2) another case is just the way you mentioned, due to some IIS bug, which you can use CURL to fix or lower down and ignore the warning if it works.

Yes, I had IIS serving that file, which I was trying to download.

By: file_get_contents fails with HTTPS URL - Anil Natha [dot] com

file_get_contents fails with HTTPS URL - Anil Natha [dot] com — Sun, 01 May 2011 23:20:05 +0000

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By: Anil

Anil — Sun, 01 May 2011 19:17:18 +0000

As documented on the PHP site at http://php.net/manual/en/function.file-get-conten… calls using HTTPS where the site is running an MS IIS server, using file_get_contents will produce an "SSL: fatal protocol error".

Could you verify if the call you were making was to a MS IIS Server?

By: donagorr

donagorr — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:29:55 +0000

I congratulate, your idea is useful

By: Stu

Stu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:03:19 +0000

Nice Script. Seems to work right away.

Thanks!

By: k

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:47:54 +0000

i got an error.

warning: file_get_contents(): ssl: connection reset by peer in /var/www/vhosts/test.php

warning: file_get_contents(): ssl: fatal protocol error in /var/www/vhosts/test.php

By: Loïc Hoguin

Loïc Hoguin — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:03:15 +0000

Hello,

Was your PHP built with OpenSSL enabled?

If you have a command line try

echo " enabled

Otherwise it won't work with HTTPS. If you recompile PHP with OpenSSL support

file_get_contents('https') should work.

Greetings,

By: Dharmavirsinh Jhala

Dharmavirsinh Jhala — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 11:07:16 +0000

Hi Loic,

Actually it doesn't work that way..

If I write following line of code:

echo file_get_contents("https://www.verisign.com/hp07/i/vlogo.gif");

I am getting following error:

Warning: file_get_contents (https://www.verisign.com/hp07/i/vlogo.gif) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in ..htdocscopySecureFile.php on line 3

If you are find it working then let me know if there is any setting to work out this error.

By: Loïc Hoguin

Loïc Hoguin — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 04:06:15 +0000

According to the documentation, you can use file_get_contents and friends with HTTPS (see php.net/wrappers). A simple 'echo file_get_contents("https://www.verisign.com/hp07/i/vlogo.gif");' works perfectly fine here.

What would be interesting to know is what exactly went wrong for you when you tried to use this function.