#86 SSL/HTTPS-requests don't work with PHP 5.6 (peer verification)

[Uwe Hunfeld]

A user reported that SSL/HTTPS-requests don't work anymore with PHP 5.6.

The reason is that peer-verification is enabled by default since PHP 5.6, and (somehow) the necessary local CA-certificate can't be located in the local environment (only in some environments?).

Also see http://php.net/manual/en/migration56.openssl.php

[Ahmed Jadelrab]

Same problem here when I tried to crawl this link "https://graph.facebook.com/4/picture?width=378&height=378"

It gave me this error message "Error connecting to https://graph.facebook.com: Host unreachable ()".

[Anonymous]

[Ahmed Jadelrab]

I worte something before to solve SSL problem...

$arrContextOptions=array(
    "ssl"=>array(
        "verify_peer"=>false,
        "verify_peer_name"=>false,
    ),
);

$url = 'https://graph.facebook.com/4/picture?width=378&height=378';

    $imageUrl = file_get_contents($url, false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions));
    $image = dirname(__file__).'/avatar/ .jpg';
    file_put_contents($image, $imageUrl);

I hope it will help you.

[Anonymous]

I had the same problem and your solution worked for me. Thanks!

I changed the code of PHPCrawlerHTTPRequest.class.php at line 547 to:

    $context = stream_context_create(array(
        'ssl' => array(
            'SNI_server_name' => $this->url_parts["host"],
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false,
        )
    ));

[Anonymous]

[Ahmed Jadelrab]

I am happy for help :)

[Anonymous]

Thanks, it worked now for ssl domains

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I did not disable verifying peer_name, but as of PHP 5.6 "SNI_server_name" is deprecated and "peer_name" should be used instead (aacording to: http://php.net/manual/en/context.ssl.php ).
I´ve forked the project on github. The following link points to my change, were I set the needed value for SSL via PHP_Version check:
https://github.com/merzilla/phpcrawl/blob/fix-php56-ssl-problem/libs/PHPCrawlerHTTPRequest.class.php#L537

HTH
merzilla

[Anonymous]

Thanks merzilla

I can also confirm, that this worked for me (PHP 5.6.x / 7.x).

NetHawk

[Anonymous]

Thanks for merzilla. I check your code and it work.

[Anonymous]