Issue when https not working correctly on server

[tobya]

I just spent a while trying to track down a problem. I was just setting up a test to get mandrill-php working and when I tried a simple send test based on your messages_send.php example, I was getting a blank page. Switching on verbose I still got a blank page, but this in my apache log.

[Wed Feb 27 20:16:15 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] MANDRILL: Invalid keys in call: 
[Wed Feb 27 20:16:15 2013] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] MANDRILL: Sending request to: https://mandrillapp.com/api/1.0/messages/send.json with data: {"message":{"html":"<h1>example html<\\/h1><a href='http:\\/\\/cookingisfun.ie'>alink <\\/a>","text":"example text","subject":"JFC Subject","from_email":"toby@jobsforcooks.com","from_name":"Toby Allen Jobs froc ookds","to":[{"email":"fontbother@gmail.com","name":"Toby Allen"}],"track_opens":true,"track_clicks":true,"auto_text":true,"url_strip_qs":true,"tags":["test","example","sample"]},"key":"IREMOVEDMYKEY"}

After quite a lot of digging and a few calls to curl_getinfo on the open session I finally figured out that there must be a problem with SSL from my dev machine. Once I changed the https to http in the mandrill api call it worked fine.

I appreciate how to set up SSL is another tutorial, but a check of the result object should be able to detect if the curl session actually happened.

I'll try to add some code to raise a helpful error and push a request.

[tobya]

I found that if the following is added before the curl session is exec

        curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

then it works, however this trusts all server certificates, so should be an option the user has to set explicitly