Description:
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XML RPC doesn't allow for communication over ssl and uses the incorrect information in the http headers.

Here is a patch to fix the problem...

diff -u --recursive XML_RPC-1.1.0_vanilla/RPC.php XML_RPC-1.1.0_xmlrpcssl/RPC.php
--- XML_RPC-1.1.0_vanilla/RPC.php       2004-03-15 15:51:44.000000000 +0200
+++ XML_RPC-1.1.0_xmlrpcssl/RPC.php     2004-05-01 18:54:11.991190696 +0200
@@ -452,16 +452,37 @@
     {
         // If we're using a proxy open a socket to the proxy server instead to the xml-rpc server
         if ($this->proxy){
+            $proxy_server = $this->proxy;
+            $proxy_proto = "";
+            if (strstr($proxy_server,"https://"))
+            {
+                $proxy_server = substr($proxy_server,8);
+                $proxy_proto = "ssl://";
+            }
+            // Backward compatibility
+            if (!strstr($proxy_server,"http://"))
+            {
+                $server = "http://" . $server;
+            }
             if ($timeout > 0) {
-                $fp = fsockopen($this->proxy, $this->proxy_port, $this->errno, $this->errstr, $timeout);
+                $fp = fsockopen($proxy_proto . $this->proxy, $this->proxy_port, $this->errno, $this->errstr, $timeout);
             } else {
-                $fp = fsockopen($this->proxy, $this->proxy_port, $this->errno, $this->errstr);
+                $fp = fsockopen($proxy_proto . $this->proxy, $this->proxy_port, $this->errno, $this->errstr);             }
         } else {
+            $server_proto = "";
+            if (strstr($server,"https://"))
+            {
+                $server = substr($server,8);
+                $server_proto = "ssl://";
+            } elseif (strstr($server,"http://"))
+            {
+                $server = substr($server,7);
+            }
             if ($timeout > 0) {
-                $fp = fsockopen($server, $port, $this->errno, $this->errstr, $timeout);
+                $fp = fsockopen($server_proto . $server, $port, $this->errno, $this->errstr, $timeout);
             } else {
-                $fp = fsockopen($server, $port, $this->errno, $this->errstr);
+                $fp = fsockopen($server_proto . $server, $port, $this->errno, $this->errstr);
             }
         }

@@ -489,7 +510,7 @@


         if ($this->proxy) {
-            $op = "POST http://" . $this->server;
+            $op = "POST ". $server;

             if ($this->proxy_port) {
                 $op .= ":" . $this->port;
@@ -500,7 +521,7 @@

         $op .= $this->path. " HTTP/1.0\r\n" .
                "User-Agent: PEAR XML_RPC\r\n" .
-               "Host: " . $this->server . "\r\n";
+               "Host: " . $server . "\r\n";
         if ($this->proxy && $this->proxy_user != '') {
             $op .= 'Proxy-Authorization: Basic ' .
                 base64_encode($this->proxy_user . ':' . $this->proxy_pass) .
@@ -660,7 +681,7 @@
     {
         $ipd = "";

-        while($data = fread($fp, 32768)) {
+        while($data = @fread($fp, 32768)) {
             $ipd .= $data;
         }
         return $this->parseResponse($ipd);