Posted by tim on 05/20/06 21:01

Colin McKinnon wrote:
> tim wrote:
>
> >
> > murd@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
> >> Hi, I am trying to complete a post using fsockopen but I'm getting the
> >> following error:
> >>
> >> "Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable
> >> it when you configured PHP?
> >>
> >> I am running php 5.1.4 with apache 2 on fedora core 4. When I
> >> configured php I did it like this:
> >> ./configure --with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs --with-mysql
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > My guess is that either mod_ssl is not installed for apache or it is
>
> Wrong. You are getting confused about servers and clients - mod_ssl is what
> runs on the server. The OP is talking about the client end of an SSL
> connection.

I know the difference but I failed to point out the difference clear in
my post and there are good resons in this case to make suggest mod_ssl
is installed.

The OP is going to be submitting details to neteller and I assumed they
will be submitted to him over the web.

When processing banking info over the web its best to have a secure
connection between the web browser->server/php script as well as
between the script/merchant bank. This would need mod_ssl installed in
the server as well as the ssl client functions enabled in php and this
is why I talked about mod_ssl in apache being needed.

Of course I should have said in my post that mod_ssl isnt needed to
enable the the ssl functions in php so thanks for pointing it out.

Tim

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