In some occasions the cURL package may be installed but PHP still reports an error saying something that cURL is installed but without SSL support compiled into it. If your server has OpenSSL installed (look for it by issuing the whereis openssl command) you should download and/or recompile the libcurl package with the following commands;
./configure --with-ssl make make install
You probably need to be root when doing the last command (make install).
Now, when you restart Apache, PHP should be able to use SSL connections to other sites without any problems!
