Magento & HHVM sendmail Issue related to stream_socket_enable_crypto

[Anton B]

It's proven now that Magento will easily get Sub 1 second load times with HHVM without any fancy caching, completely stock. 

There is one currently very large obstacle to running Magento on HHVM and that's HHVM's lack of stream_socket_enable_crypto support.

What this means is that for Magento running on HHVM when a customer goes to Checkout and hits the [Place Order] button the next page they will receive is a white blank page. This is because HHVM throws an error in the background. The order will still go through, but the customer will never receive an order confirmation e-mail. 

Also, on HHVM Magento customers won't be able to use the contact form and they will get this error:

Unable to submit your request. Please, try again later

 The error you will get in HHVM is: 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function stream_socket_enable_crypto() in /magento/lib/Zend/Mail/Protocol/Smtp.php on line 206

So, what can you do about this? Please prod HHVM's devs to roll out support for stream_socket_enable_crypto quicker. You can do that here: https://github.com/facebook/hhvm/issues/1647

The faster this is done, the faster Magento will be fully supported. Currently, I'm forced to use quite a few tricks to get around this problem.

[Anton B]

Looks like this worked! 

FInally got Facebook's devs to respond. They will start working on implementing stream_socket_enable_crypto within the next week or two. They don't have an ETA yet, however, but this is basically as good as it will get. 

No need to bug them anymore!

[mowz]

This has been completed already for awhile hasnt it? Magento sites and HHVM have been almost stable now.

[MagenX]

you can always separate requests , send some incompatible routes to php-fpm, i am sure you wont lose much...