php + ssl build

hi all, i had to use the fsockopen() in php with ssl... ssl wasn't enabled by default. i recompiled. reinstalled. no errors. phpinfo.php shows that the commands used to configure it were: '/configure' '--with-apxs=/bin/apxs' '--with-mysql=/mysql' '--with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl' also from phpinfo.php: OpenSSL support enabled OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.6h 5 Dec 2002 so fsockopen() with ssl must work, right? wrong.... i have a code line like this: $fp = fsockopen ("ssl://www.foo.com", 443, $errno, $errstr, 30); that produces this: Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: no SSL support in this build in /path/to/file... can somebody help? thanks...