Fread + Ssl

Hi,

Im having a slight problem with fgets and ssl.

<?php


function monkey($method,$protocal,$port,$domain,$path,$data,$query){
	

	if($method=="POST"){


		$fp = fsockopen($protocal."://".$domain, $port, $errno, $errstr, 30);

		if (!$fp) {
			echo $errstr." (".$errno.")<br />\n";
		} else {
			$out .= "POST /".$path."?".$query." HTTP/1.1\r\n";
			$out .= "Host: ".$domain."\r\n";
			$out .= "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n";
			$out .= "Content-Length: " . strlen($req) . "\r\n";
			$out .= "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
			$out .= $req;
			
			fputs ($fp, $out);
			while (!feof($fp)) {
				echo fgets($fp, 128);
			}
			fclose($fp);
		}

	}
}
$data['foo']="Hello Post data";
monkey("POST","ssl","443","domaingoeshere.com","",$data,"a=blag");

?>

Fgets throws an error at me.
Is there something obvious that ive done wrong?
Apache is settup correctly and php is compiled with ssl support.