Misleading error message suggests openssl is missing in PHP instead of "could not connect to host"

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. https://www.textmagic.com not reachable
2. Try to use API
3. Exception is thrown with misleading error message

What is the expected output?

  Could not connect to https://www.textmagic.com

What do you see instead?

  Please check does PHP have OpenSSL support.

What version of the product are you using?

  Latest release - has no version number in source code

On what operating system?

  Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze

Please provide any additional information below.

  TextMagicAPI.php

    private function _executeFOpenRequestAndReturn($params)
    {
        $raw_data = '';

        $url = $this->_config['gateway'];
        foreach ($params as $key=>$value) {
            $url .= "&" . $key . "=" . $value;
        }

        $handler = @fopen($url, 'r');
        if ($handler) {
            while ($line = @fgets($handler, 1024)) {
                $raw_data .= $line;
            }
            fclose($handler);
        } else {
            throw new Exception("Please check does PHP have OpenSSL support.");
        }
        return $raw_data;
    }

It just doesn't make sense to give the engineers the impression something
might be wrong with SSL support in PHP or SSL support is even missing
when in reality the gateway https://www.textmagic.com/app/api just can not
be connected to (because of what reason whatsoever).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by voodoofo...@googlemail.com on 25 Sep 2012 at 7:58