Do so at your leisure. I fear that I have a few other things that I need to move onto the the rest of the night.
My gut feeling tells me that the mods specifed, along with cURL enabled may, just may take care of your troubles.
If not, then you may also be onto something with it being SSL related, but this should be pretty darn easy to test/prove/disprove .. just disable SSL for a bit and see what happens. Only takes one or two changes to the config files.
Cheers
Rod
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