Curl & SSL in harmony

[kiss-o-matic]

Hate to ask such a general question, but can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

Here's the general gist of my attempt.

[code]
// login to Yahoo
$url = "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.done=http://auctions.yahoo.com&.src=auc&.intl=us"
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1)
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 2 );
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 5)';
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, 'cookie.txt');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, 'cookie.txt');
$data = curl_exec ($ch);
print $data;
[/code]

It just times out, and tells me:
Warning: curl_error(): 7 is not a valid cURL handle resource in

Am I missing something?

EDIT: Fixed typos in subject & body

[trq]

You start by defining your resource handle using the varuable $cu, then ever after try and refer to it using $ch.

And what, (at all) does this have to do with SSH?

[kiss-o-matic]

Sorry, that was a typo.  Assuming I defined the curl seesion properly
[quote]$ch = curl_init()[/quote]

I want to know how to access secure page (SSL) pages.  As it stands, it just times out with an error.