I am working on a script and i get this error

Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsocko pen]: unable to connect to https://www.alertpay.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "https" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in XXXXXXXXXXXXXX on line 84

I have contacted my host to make sure that ssl and all that is enabled he says it has been enabled and it still dont work

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