Sometimes some websites require https to work. This can be useful in those cases.
This has been tested with XAMPP (PHP 7.0.8) on Windows 7. Please see the Reference links at the end if in confusion about some step.
Open:
C:\xampp\php\php.ini
This has been tested with XAMPP (PHP 8.2) on Windows 11.
Open php.ini by clicking Config button on the Xampp control panel
In this ini file semi colon (;) is used to comment a line. We want to use openssl library, so we have to make sure the line for openssl is not commented.
Remove semi colon (;) in front of this line, if there is any: