PHP & Authorize.net w/o cURL?

[William C. White]

Does anyone know of a way to use PHP /w Authorize.net AIM without using
cURL? Our website is hosted on a shared drive and the webhost company
doesn't installed additional software (such as cURL) on the server because
of that. Our site will have an SSL certificate next week, so I would like
to use AIM instead of SIM, however, I don't know how to send data via POST
over https and recieve data from the Authorize.net server over an https
connection. Does anyone have experience with this?
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William C. White

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: PHP & Authorize.net w/o cURL?

Jon Kraft <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote in message news:<Xns93A46B ADADBE7jonjonux couk@130.133.1. 4>...[color=blue]
> "William C. White" <u2ill@hotmail. com> wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Does anyone know of a way to use PHP /w Authorize.net AIM without
> > using cURL? Our website is hosted on a shared drive and the webhost
> > company doesn't installed additional software (such as cURL) on the
> > server because of that. Our site will have an SSL certificate next
> > week, so I would like to use AIM instead of SIM, however, I don't know
> > how to send data via POST over https and recieve data from the
> > Authorize.net server over an https connection. Does anyone have
> > experience with this?[/color]
>
> You could use fsockopen (search for "POST" in the User Contributed Notes):
> http://uk.php.net/fsockopen[/color]

AFAIK, you cannot post data via fsockopen() to https server...

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[Jon Kraft]

Re: PHP &amp; Authorize.net w/o cURL?

ng4rrjanbiah@re diffmail.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) wrote:[color=blue]
> Jon Kraft <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote:[color=green]
>>
>> You could use fsockopen (search for "POST" in the User Contributed
>> Notes): http://uk.php.net/fsockopen[/color]
>
> AFAIK, you cannot post data via fsockopen() to https server...[/color]

Since v4.3 there are different stream transports available (tcp, udp,
ssl..). If PHP is built with OpenSSL, you can use them, e.g.:

$fs = fsockopen("ssl://www.secureserve r.com", 443);

http://uk.php.net/manual/en/transports.php

HTH;
JOn

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Re: PHP &amp; Authorize.net w/o cURL?

Jon Kraft <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote in message news:<Xns93A563 A3B8E73jonjonux couk@130.133.1. 4>...[color=blue]
> ng4rrjanbiah@re diffmail.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Jon Kraft <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> ng4rrjanbiah@re diffmail.com (R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah) wrote:
> >> > Jon Kraft <jon@jonux.co.u k> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> You could use fsockopen (search for "POST" in the User Contributed
> >> >> Notes): http://uk.php.net/fsockopen
> >> >
> >> > AFAIK, you cannot post data via fsockopen() to https server...
> >>
> >> Since v4.3 there are different stream transports available (tcp, udp,
> >> ssl..). If PHP is built with OpenSSL, you can use them, e.g.:[/color]
> >
> > I see...
> >[color=darkred]
> >> $fs = fsockopen("ssl://www.secureserve r.com", 443);
> >>
> >> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/transports.php[/color]
> >
> > This manual page is not clear to me especially the "Table J-1.
> > Context options for ssl:// and tls:// transports (since PHP 4.3.2)"
> > There is no information about where to use the parameters like
> > "verify_pee r". If you know more about the stuff, you may add some
> > useful user notes there---that will be really helpful to others.[/color]
>
> I don't know, that stuff seems relatively new,[/color]

Yes. When I moved to PHP 4.3.1, I've looked at the changelog
which said fsockopen() can handle ssl://. I tried a lot, but it failed
--- I think, I've used a wrong port.
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> but I should think you'd
> use them as additional directives in php.ini? Someone?[/color]

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> PS: On this page is an example of posting to a secure server (Example 2):
> http://uk.php.net/manual/en/ref.stream.php[/color]

Thanks for pointing me this page. Nice example, but no info
about "certificat es", "verify peer" stuffs.

I feel, cURL is so handy than this fsockopen() version.

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