title: Making sure SoapClient is sending TLS 1.2 requests in PHP 5.5
body: <p>We have a site on an old codebase using PHP 5.5 (for now) and one of our integrations we interface with using <code>SoapClient</code> has told us they will be disabling usage of TLS &lt; 1.2 shortly.</p>
  
  <p>Currently our connections are as simple as:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$client = new SoapClient($soap_url);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What do we have to do to make sure only TLS 1.2 requests are sent? I found <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/35920578/472501">this answer</a>, but I'm not entirely sure if this still applies to our situation; additionally, not sure we should be forcing <em>Soap 1.1</em> either?</p>
  
  <p>What are the requirements on our end to make sure we send TLS 1.2 requests?</p>