Easy expanation of setting up Openssl on Windows

Question

I really want to get the google Calendar Api up an running. I found a great article about how to get started. I downloaded the Zend GData classes. I have php 5 running on my dev box and all the exetensions should be loading.

I cant get openssl running and recieve the following error when I try to run any of the example page which should connect to my Google Calendar.

Uncaught exception 'Zend_Gdata_App_HttpException' with message 'Unable to Connect to ssl://www.google.com:443. Error #24063472: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?'

I have looked in many places to try to get OpenSSL running on my machine and installed.

Does anyone know of a simple failsafe tutorial to get this combination up and running?

Answer 1

I think this use of SSL is part of the Zend GData library so I assume it is correct. I think not having OpenSSL correctly installed is my main issue.

Answer 2

First it would be helpful if you mentioned your OS, I'll assume windows.

Check the output of

<?php echo phpinfo();?>

If the OpenSSL library is enabled "Registered Stream Socket Transports" will mention ssl

Your php.ini should have

[PHP_OPENSSL]
extension=php_openssl.dll

If its not there, or you add it and php complains then you should re-run the installer and go through the list of extensions, it would be under OpenSSL.

Answer 3

Could you have mistyped the PROTOCOL in the URL? It should be HTTPS, not "SSL". For example, , not SSL://www.google.com:443. Can you double check this in your example client and make sure it is HTTPS, not SSL.