title: Installing Composer for Windows - unable to find wrapper "https"
body: <p>I am trying to install Composer for Windows using the command line with the following call:</p>
  
  <p>php -r "readfile(<a href="https://getcomposer.org/installer" rel="noreferrer">https://getcomposer.org/installer</a>);" | php</p>
  
  <p>However, I get this error message:</p>
  
  <p>Warning: readfile(): Unable to find the wrapper "https" - did you forget to enable it when configured PHP? in Command line code on line 1</p>
  
  <p>Call Stack:
     0.0010  224336 1. {main}() Command line code:0
     0.0010  224488 2. readfile() command line code:1</p>
  
  <p>Warning: readfile(<a href="https://getcomposer.org/installer" rel="noreferrer">https://getcomposer.org/installer</a>): failed to open stream: invalid argument in Command line code on line 1</p>
  
  <p>Call Stack:
     0.0010 224336 1. {main}() Command line code:0
     0.0010 224488 2. readfile() Command line code:1</p>
  
  <p>I have already uncommented the ";extension=php_openssl.dll" line in the php5.5.12 directory, restarted the browser, and tried other variants. When I run the command with just the 's' in https dropped, I get:</p>
  
  <p>Some settings on your machine make Composer unable to work properly. Make sure that you fix the issues listed below and run this script again:</p>
  
  <p>The openssl extension is missing, which means that secure HTTPS transfers are impossible. If possible you should enable it or recompile php with --with-openssl</p>
  
  <p>I've tried including this --with-openssl flag at various places but it doesn't seem to be doing the trick.</p>