is CURL right for SSL post to payment processing Authenticate.net

Apologies if this went through twice. The original got bounced back. I'm wondering if anyone has experience using CURL and could advise if it's the best direction for creating a SSL to a payment processing service. I'm trying to connect an existing PHP form to a payment processing service called Authorize.net. Using there direct response method requires a Secure Socket which a thought meant to send from a secure form to their secure script which didn't work. Here's what I got from their tech support. "The problem is that you can't send an HTML form POST when using Direct Response. You must write a script that creates an SSL connection directly with our server (port 443) and send the information to us through that connection. I do not know if this is possible through PHP but usually this is done with PERL, CGI, or ColdFusion. Please refer to the Developer's guide for more information: https://secure.authorize.net/docs Thank you for contacting our customer service group." I found some info about CURL, http://curl.haxx.se/, and it seems like it might do the trick. I was wondering if anyone has experience with this a can confirm that this is the best approach or give me some other direction. Thanks, Tom >>.>>.>>>.>>>>>.>>>>>>>>>.>>>>>>>> Tom Beidler Orbit Tech Services 805.682.8972 (phone) 805.682.5833 (fax) tom@orbittechservices.com http://www.orbittechservices.com/ >>.>>.>>>.>>>>>.>>>>>>>>>.>>>>>>>>