I was having trouble doing an https in fopen and with fsockopen where the address had ssl://. I was getting error code 114 in the log. After much research i found that there was some ssl conflict trouble with MySQL 5.0.20-5.0.33. It had some functions that were interfering with openssl that showed up in the php install.
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=21930
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19289