OPENSSL file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto - php

Question

I'm building a personal stock platform (not distributed). A component I would like to have is the EPS graph on this page:
https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/fundamentals/earnings.jhtml?stockspage=earnings&symbols=AAPL&showPriceLine=yes
As you can see, the page is https, so after days of hammering things out, I enabled openssl and now it seems to work for all https pages such as the homepages of facebook and twitter, however it is still not working for the one I need.
file_get_contents('https://facebook.com'); /* works */
file_get_contents('https://twittercom'); /* works */
file_get_contents('https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/fundamentals/earnings.jhtml?stockspage=earnings&symbols=AAPL&showPriceLine=yes');
I'm getting the warning:
Warning: file_get_contents(): SSL: crypto enabling timeout in C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php on line 3
Warning: file_get_contents(): Failed to enable crypto in C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php on line 3
Warning: file_get_contents(https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/fundamentals/earnings.jhtml?stockspage=earnings&symbols=AAPL&showPriceLine=yes): failed to open stream: operation failed in C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php on line 3
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in C:\xampp\htdocs\index.php on line 3
The only difference I can see is that the fidelity page has a triangle near the https label.

Answer 1

Ok I have found a solution. The problem is that the site uses SSLv3. And I know that there are some problems in the openssl module. Some time ago I had the same problem with the SSL versions.
<?php
function getSSLPage($url) {
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $result;
}
var_dump(getSSLPage("https://eresearch.fidelity.com/eresearch/evaluate/analystsOpinionsReport.jhtml?symbols=api"));
?>
When you set the SSL Version with curl to v3 then it works.
Edit:
Another problem under Windows is that you don't have access to the certificates. So put the root certificates directly to curl.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
here you can download the root certificates.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, __DIR__ . "/certs/cacert.pem");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, true);
Then you can use the CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER option with true otherwise you get an error.

Answer 2

Had same problem - it was somewhere in the ca certificate, so I used the ca bundle used for curl, and it worked. You can download the curl ca bundle here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html
For encryption and security issues see this helpful article:
https://www.venditan.com/labs/2014/06/26/ssl-and-php-streams-part-1-you-are-doing-it-wrongtm/432
Here is the example:
$url = 'https://www.example.com/api/list';
$cn_match = 'www.example.com';
$data = array (
'apikey' => '[example api key here]',
'limit' => intval($limit),
'offset' => intval($offset)
);
// use key 'http' even if you send the request to https://...
$options = array(
'http' => array(
'header' => "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n",
'method' => 'POST',
'content' => http_build_query($data)
)
, 'ssl' => array(
'verify_peer' => true,
'cafile' => [path to file] . "cacert.pem",
'ciphers' => 'HIGH:TLSv1.2:TLSv1.1:TLSv1.0:!SSLv3:!SSLv2',
'CN_match' => $cn_match,
'disable_compression' => true,
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($options);
$response = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
Hope that helps

Answer 3

A workaround that works for me is to disable peer verification. Be careful when you use it because it shouldn't be use in production.
$arrContextOptions = array(
"ssl" => array(
"verify_peer" => false,
"verify_peer_name" => false,
)
);
$context = stream_context_create($arrContextOptions);
$contents = file_get_contents($url,false,$context);