How to get file_get_contents() to work with HTTPS?

Question

I\'m working on setting up credit card processing and needed to use a workaround for CURL. The following code worked fine when I was using the test server (which wasn\'t cal

Answer 1

Try the following.

function getSslPage($url) {
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, FALSE);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
    $result = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    return $result;
}

Note: This disables SSL verification, meaning the security offered by HTTPS is lost. Only use this code for testing / local development, never on the internet or other public-facing networks. If this code works, it means the SSL certificate isn't trusted or can't be verified, which you should look into fixing as a separate issue.

Answer 2

$url= 'https://example.com';

$arrContextOptions=array(
      "ssl"=>array(
            "verify_peer"=>false,
            "verify_peer_name"=>false,
        ),
    );  

$response = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions));

This will allow you to get the content from the url whether it is a HTTPS

Answer 3

HTTPS is supported starting from PHP 4.3.0, if you have compiled in support for OpenSSL. Also, make sure the target server has a valid certificate, the firewall allows outbound connections and allow_url_fopen in php.ini is set to true.

Answer 4

TO CHECK IF AN URL IS UP OR NOT

The code in your question can be rewritten as to a working version:

function send($packet=NULL, $url) {
// Do whatever you wanted to do with $packet
// The below two lines of code will let you know if https url is up or not
$command = 'curl -k '.$url;
return exec($command, $output, $retValue);
}

Answer 5

This is probably due to your target server not having a valid SSL certificate.

Answer 6

I was stuck with non functional https on IIS. Solved with:

file_get_contents('https.. ) wouldn't load.

• download https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
• install under ..phpN.N/extras/ssl

• edit php.ini with:

  curl.cainfo = "C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.3\extras\ssl\cacert.pem" openssl.cafile="C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.3\extras\ssl\cacert.pem"

finally!