Joe Jacobs
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WordPress spell check error
Author: Joe Jacobs5 Nov
I’ve been having this problem for the past couple of months with the spell checking in WordPress. An error window with a whole lotta gibberish in it pops up every time I try to do a spell check. This is the recorded error message from my error logs:
Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://www.google.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport “ssl” - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)
I’ve done some searches on Google and the only possible solution that I found was to recompile PHP with support for CURL and openSSL. So I tried that but I still get an error message. Anyone got any ideas what’s wrong?
4 Responses for "WordPress spell check error"
It looks like a sample url.
ssl://www.google.com:443 to me would be the same as https://www.google.com. The ssl:// and use of port 443 is trying to open an ssl connection to google, but why your spell checker would do that doesn’t make sense. Check your configuration or go line by line to see how or why that’s needed.
I copied the function that was generating the previous error and ran it separately. It seemed to work fine. It tries to connect using 2 methods, first with CURL then with fsockopen. Both methods worked fine when I tested it but the spell check still isn’t workling!
I copied the function that was generating the previous error and ran it separately. It seemed to work fine. It tries to connect using 2 methods, first with CURL then with fsockopen. Both methods worked fine when I tested it but the spell check still isn’t workling!
Yea that’s what I said!
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