I am using a free web hosting platform that disables the following php functions: allow_url_fopen, fsockopen, pfsockpen, getrusage, get_current_user, set_time_limit, getmyuid, getmypid, dl, leak, listen, chown, chgrp, realpath, link, exec, passthru, curl_init.
These functions being disabled means I can't use curl or fsockopen to communicate with an external server.
I have tried using file_get_contents
as mentioned here, but I get the following error message: file_get_contents(): Unable to find the wrapper https - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?
Being that I'm on a free hosting plan, I don't know that I can do any php configuration. Are there any other options for communicating with an external server?