Getting the content of a webpage (text) that use https WITHOUT curl on PHP

im using a very simple php script to retrive the text of a webpage;

$homepage = file_get_contents('http://192.168.1.125:6547/quickstatus');
echo $homepage;

But this instruction do not work on https, i dont have support for curl (im using a开发者_开发问答 php compiler), is any way to retrive the content of a page that use https whitout curl???

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I think if the function file_get_contents doesn't work with https address means that your installation of PHP has no openssl extension installed. That's why curl and other solutions will not be an option as well.

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file_get_contents() will work as long as PHP is compiled with openssl support. If your installation does not include it, you can recompile (or reinstall a binary version of) PHP.

Please note this caveat from the manual:

When using SSL, Microsoft IIS will violate the protocol by closing the connection without sending a close_notify indicator. PHP will report this as "SSL: Fatal Protocol Error" when you reach the end of the data. To work around this, the value of error_reporting should be lowered to a level that does not include warnings. PHP 4.3.7 and higher can detect buggy IIS server software when you open the stream using the https:// wrapper and will suppress the warning. When using fsockopen() to create an ssl:// socket, the developer is responsible for detecting and suppressing this warning.

If you are attempting to connect to a server running IIS, this may also be a solution.

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You could use PEAR::HTTP_Request.