Greetings…
I’m in a bind so I’m hoping the community can lend me a hand. Short overview. I’ve developed an application for a client, but to get to it I have to handshake through their SSO protocol, which sends xml data back and forth to authenticate users. They provided me with access to their test server and I put snippets and research together to come up with a curl script that works. Here that is (in part):
$request_xml = "$data"; // this is the parsed xml that I am sending to their server requesting information
$ch = curl_init("http://www.myclientsserver.com/folder/authority.sso"); // this is where I'm sending the request to
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $request_xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$response_xml = curl_exec($ch);
$xmlDoc = new DOMDocument();
$xmlDoc->loadXML($response_xml);
$x = $xmlDoc->getElementsByTagName('scope');
foreach ($x AS $item)
{
$scopeCode = $item->getAttribute("value"); // this gives me what I'm looking for, the value of the "scope" tag
}As I said, this works flawlessly on their test server. So what’s the problem? When I went to deploy it they sprung on me that their production server is https not http. So I tried simply changing this line:
$ch = curl_init("https://www.myclientsserver.com/folder/authority.sso"); // simply added the "s"But all I get back now is a blank page. In doing additional research it seems that using curl with https is a bit tricky…but possible from what I can tell. Problem is I haven’t been able to do it myself! My client thinks that the problem lies with my server not accepting their SSL cert, but given what I’ve read on the subject, I tend to believe it is curl.
I have to figure this out by Monday, so I am hoping that someone can shed some light on this for me. It would be greatly appreciated indeed!
Thanks in advance.