SSL and CURL question --

CURL is realy cool, lets me do easy socket stuff, especially with ssl, which leads me to my question: How on God's green earth do I send more then simple requests to a SSL server? Here's my basic request... POST /apps.here/xml/Rate HTTP/1.1 Content-Type: application/xml Content-Length: 1074 <?xml version=1.0 encoding="UTF-8"?> <xml stuff here>blah.......</xml stuff here> the CURL code (so far) $xml_req="this is the xml doc"; $l=strlen($xml_req); $url="https://www.secureserver.com/apps.here/xml/Rate"; $tmp_out=time() . ".tmp.xml.out"; $fp = fopen ("/public/nirvana/" . $tmp_out, "w+"); fwrite($fp, $xml_req, $l); $ch = curl_init (); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION, 3); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST /apps.here/xml/Rate HTTP/1.1"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, "Content-Type: application/xml"); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp); curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); // curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1); // curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); $results = curl_exec ($ch); fclose($fp); curl_close ($ch); the tmp xml file displays the correct stuff. I'm totally confused and there is basically NO curl ssl support docs anywhere. distraut in buffalo, dave