file_get_contents and https

I am new to PHP; using Apache 2.2 and PHP 5/Windows. I'd like to do this:

$x = file_get_contents("https://user:pw@xxxxxxx";)

I get:

Warning: file_get_contents(https://...) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Invalid argument in ... on line...

I think I have the following correct:

1) I have php_openssl.dll present and indicated as an extension in the ext directory
2) libeay32.dll is on the Windows path

What more do I need to do?

Thanks,


Bob Hanson


--
Robert M. Hanson
Professor of Chemistry
St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/hansonr


If nature does not answer first what we want,
it is better to take what answer we get.

-- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lecture XXX, Monday, February 5, 1900
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