PHP Curl does not work on localhost?

Question

I am using MAMP Pro 1.9.4 on Mac OSX
In phpinfo() I see curl is enabled

cURL support    enabled
cURL Information    7.20.0
Age 3
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Answer 1

In MAMP, if you are getting errors when connecting to HTTPS hosts, just set this option:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLVERSION,3);

The equivalent by command line is:

curl -k -ssl3 https://www.your-secure-host.com