Make a HTTPS request through PHP and get response

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I want to make HTTPS request through PHP to a server and get the response.something similar to this ruby code\[code\] http = Net::HTTP.new("www.example.com", 443)\[code\] http.use_ssl = true path = "uri" resp, data = http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3873187/http.get(path, nil)\[/code\]\[/code\]ThanksWa'el