Got it working

The problem was in the curl call when the web server OS is windows

Default line from qbms.php:

curl_setopt($clientURL, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);

Found a sample that stated this should not be so:
http://forums.oscommerce.com/topic/9...l-test-script/

Fixed line from qbms.php:
curl_setopt($clientURL, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);

Thank you for your help and for this Forum