SSL POST problems, cURL, fsockopen, ipv6??

Hello. I've read all the documentation I can find about https POSTs using curl, fsockopen with "ssl://", even PEAR's Net_Socket package, but I'm running into a PHP problem I haven't seen before. Platform Info: OpenBSD 2.9, PHP 4.3.2, Apache 1.3.27, ModSSL 2.8.14, OpenSSL 0.9.6, curl 7.9.8 (I've installed curl 7.10.5, but PHP configure refuses to see it even when I specify the path, "--with-curl=/usr/local/curl" -- it uses the default 7.9.8 install in /usr/local no matter what I do). I'm testing all my code on my Mac OS X server and everything works fine, but I'm running into problems when I try to move it to my main server running OpenBSD 2.9 -- I can't get any of these methods to connect to a particular target server (running MS Site Server, btw) -- all attempts return nothing. Yes, I'm also talking to the admins of the target server, but some error messages on my end concern me. - Using Snoopy (which uses curl for https posts), it reports an error 6 = "Couldn't resolve host". - Using fsockopen with ssl://, my error log reads: "PHP Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to [secure.host.name]:443 PHP Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: no address associated with name (is your IPV6 configuration correct? If this error happens all the time, try reconfiguring PHP using --disable-ipv6 option to configure)" (I've tried reconfiguring php with "--disable-ipv6" and reinstalling, but I continue to get the same message). Anyone have any penetrating insights? Thanks in advance... Alex - - - - - - - - - - af at ax-im dot com