Make a HTTPS request through PHP and get response

I want to make HTTPS request through PHP to a server and get the response.

something similar to this ruby code

  http = Net::HTTP.new("www.example.com", 443)

  http.use_ssl = true

  path = "uri"

  resp, data = http.get(path, nil)

Thanks

Answer

this might work, give it a shot.

 $ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
// Set so curl_exec returns the result instead of outputting it.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
// Get the response and close the channel.
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

for more info, check http://unitstep.net/blog/2009/05/05/using-curl-in-php-to-access-https-ssltls-protected-sites/