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我有以下代码可以登录到一个名为Pinger TextFree的服务器，用于我正在开发的机器人：

<?php
function sendRequest($url, $postorget, $fields = array(), $proxy)
{
    $cookie_file = "cookies.txt";
    //Initiate connection
    $ch = curl_init();
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $header); // set url
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); // set url
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // return the transfer
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); // allow https
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)'); // random agent
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1); // automatically follow Location: headers (ie redirects)
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER, 1); // auto set the referer in the event of a redirect
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 5); // ibm likes to redirect a lot, make sure we dont get stuck in a loop
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file); // file to save cookies in
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file); // file to read cookies from
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 40); //timeout time for curl
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, 80); //port to connect to (default 80 obviously)
    //Check to see if a proxy is being used
    if(isset($proxy)){
        //Tell cURL you're using a proxy
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_SOCKS5);
        //Set the proxy
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxy); 
    }
    //Check if request is POST or GET
    if ($postorget == "post" OR $postorget == "POST")
    {
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); // use POST
        if (is_array($fields)){
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($fields)); // key => name gets turned into &key=name
        } else {
            curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $fields); // &key=name passed in
        }
    } else { 
        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, false); // use GET
    }
    $content = curl_exec($ch); // return html content
    $info = curl_getinfo($ch); // return transfer info
    $error = curl_error($ch);  // return any errors
    curl_close($ch);
    $request = array('content' => $content,
             'error' => $error,
         'info' => $info);
    return $request;            
}
//Login details
$username = "usernamehere";
$password = "passwordhere";
//GET the initial login page
$initFields = "";
$initOutput = sendRequest("http://www.pinger.com/tfw/?t=1360619019053", "GET", $initFields);
echo "<textarea cols='100' rows='400'>";
print_r($initOutput);
echo "</textarea>";
//Login to pinger
$loginFields = "{'"username'":'"".$username."'",'"password'":'"".$password."'",'"clientId'":'"textfree-in-flash-web-free-1360619009-8CA1C5C1-38ED-2E31-3248-CB367450A20F'"}";
$loginOutput = sendRequest("https://api.pinger.com/1.0/web/login", "POST", $loginFields);
echo "<textarea cols='100' rows='400'>";
print_r($loginOutput);
echo "</textarea>";
?>

由于某种原因，每次我尝试运行这个脚本时，我得到的都是"连接到api.pinger.com:80时出现未知SSL协议错误"

我在这里做错了什么？我甚至会在setop中指定SSL2，但它永远挂起——我就是无法让它工作！

这是我正在尝试自动化的应用程序：http://www.pinger.com/tfw/

它是闪存，但我正在使用Fiddler来探查HTTP/HTTPS请求，以使用cURL实现它们的自动化。

你们有什么想法吗？