flamesrock wrote: > don't you need to install openSSL? > > I'm not sure. > I don't understand why, but that fixes it. I used the OpenSSL binary from here: http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html Thanks for the tip... how *does* all of the other Win32 apps handle SSl w/o installing OpenSSL? Do they bundle it and only use it for themselves? That seems foolish.