Making a socket connection using HTTPS

I'm trying to make a socket connection using HTTPS.

Here's my code
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<?
error_reporting (E_ALL);

$sock = fsockopen("secure.example.com",443,$errno,$errstr,30);

if(!$sock)
  die("$errstr ($errno)\n");

fwrite($sock,"GET /theGetPath?valOne=1&valTwo=2 HTTP/1.0\r\n");
fwrite($sock,"Host: secure.example.com\r\n");
fwrite($sock,"Connection: close\r\n\r\n");

$headers = '';
while($str = trim(fgets($sock,4096)))
 $headers .= "$str\n";

echo "\n";

$body = '';
while(!feof($sock))
 $body .= fgets($sock,4096);

fclose($sock);
?>

My browser gives me a completely blank screen - no errors or anything.  Are my headers incorrect?  Am I missing a neccessary header?  I know this is a secure protocol, so do I need to include any particular headers because of that?

I've also tried to do this using a output buffering, but I can't figure out how to access the resulting HTML after sending the initiate URL to the server.

How can I do this using either fsoockopen( ) or ob_start( )?

Tx,
bmh