On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Ambarish Mitra wrote:

> I am on curl 7.12.1, and SSL support is enabled. Also, openssl version is:
> OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003.

Both these versions are very old and contain numerous bugs and security flaws.
You should start by trying more recent versions of both libcurl and openssl.

If that still cause problems, there's no a lot much else to do than to fire up
your debugger and follow the code flow to find the function that fails. Or
possibly run with strace first.

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