PHP 5.6 and SSL Operation Failed error

 David

When I enabled SSL on my website, it broke two vendor libraries that I'm using from composer, which used to work without any problem prior to SSL certificate installation.

One is the outgoing emails using PHP SwiftMailer and the other is Googles reCAPTCHA service using marwelln's recaptcha composer package.

It turns out that starting PHP v5.6.0 release, it changed the default values for verify_peer and verify_peer_name to TRUE, which broke the two operation code mentioned above.

Here's the solution to correct these two problems:

For SwiftMailer, disable the SSL check by modifying the _establishSocketConnection() function in StreamBuffer.php by adding the following two lines before stream_context_create command:

        // two new lines to be added
        $options['ssl']['verify_peer'] = FALSE;
        $options['ssl']['verify_peer_name'] = FALSE;

        // existing code in _establishSocketConnection() function
        $streamContext = stream_context_create($options);

For marwelln's recaptcha, replace the simple() function in Marwelln\Recaptcha\Request.php as follows:

protected function simple() {

        $arrContextOptions=array(
            "ssl"=>array(
                "verify_peer"=>false,
                "verify_peer_name"=>false,
            ),
        );

        return json_decode(file_get_contents($this->url, false, stream_context_create($arrContextOptions)));

        // below is the original code that has been replaced
        //return json_decode(file_get_contents($this->url));
}

That should do it and make sure to test them out!
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