Static php4-openssl extension needed was: Missing SSL support in core php4

[Michael Ranner]

Description:
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fsockopen() does not support SSL/TLS with shared OpenSSL extension. PHP
4.3.8 build from FreeBSD Ports with shared extenstions. Extension is
loaded according phpinfo(). Squirrelmail and other applications cannot
use fsockopen() with tls. I need to compile PHP4 with the static
OpenSSL extension.

Response from pollita at php.net:
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It's known, it's been reported (many times) and can't be fixed within
the framework of PHP4.  PHP5 however abstracts transports out in a way
that makes it all work whether OpenSSL is compiled as a shared module
or staticly.

For PHP4, your only option is to compile the module staticly.  To bodge
dynamic registration of ssl:// and tls:// transports into PHP4 would
represent a major code change which will not happen within a point
release.


So maybe we can optionally build static OpenSSL extension for PHP4 in FreeBSD 
to not break SSL support in core functions.

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