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(4 posts)    1. jasoj2     Posted 5 years ago #      The
following error occurs when attempting to check spelling when
writing a new post:      Error response:     <b>Warning</b>:
fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to
ssl://www.google.com:443 (Unable to find the socket transport
"ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in
<b>C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\js\tinymce\plugins\spel
lchecker\classes\GoogleSpell.php</b> on line <b>85</b>     Could
not open SSL connection to
google.{"id":null,"result":[],"error":null}      I have seen
this error listed several times on the forums and have seen
varied responses, but no definitive means of correcting the
problem.      I use XAMPP and run my WordPress blog from a home
server. However, I am primarily a hardware guy, not a software
guy, so much of this coding stuff is Greek to me. That said,
does anybody know how I can fix this issue? I am set to have a
large numb