I'm testing paypal ipn for a website I am building, but it fails when I try to validate the ipn. In particular this line doesn't work:
$fp = fsockopen('ssl://www.sandbox.paypal.com', 443, $errno, $errstr, 30);
the check if (!$fp) fails (fp is false). I assume it can't connect. Why this?
Update
I discovered my hosting solution doesn't support ssl, in fact I get:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.sandbox.paypal.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)
Is there a way to get over this without going for another hosting solution?
You don't have to use SSL (though Paypal highly recommends it.)
$fp = fsockopen('www.paypal.com', 80, $errno, $errstr, 30);