title: curl php ssl connection timeout
body: <p>I found this code in the internet and I modified it for my use, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, I'm getting this error 
  Curl error: SSL connection timeout
  The login part is successful, but the search isn't working with me. can somebody help me with it please?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  //create array of data to be posted
  $post_data['username'] = 'user';
  $post_data['password'] = 'log';
  $post_data['cmd'] = 'log';
  
  //create array of data to be posted
  foreach ( $post_data as $key =&gt; $value) {
      $post_items[] = $key . '=' . $value;
  }
  //create the final string to be posted using implode()
  $post_string = implode ('&amp;', $post_items);
  //create cURL connection
  $curl_connection =
    curl_init('https://sie.com');
  //set options
  ///curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3990);
  
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
  
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
      'Connection: Keep-Alive',
      'Keep-Alive: 300'
  ));
  
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  //set data to be posted
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
  //perform our request
  $result = curl_exec($curl_connection);
  //show information regarding the request
  
  //print_r(curl_getinfo($curl_connection));
  //echo curl_errno($curl_connection) . '-' .
    //              curl_error($curl_connection);
  //close the connection
  //curl_close($curl_connection);
  
  
  echo $result."\n";
  
  
  $post_data1['cmd'] = 'Viewr';
  $post_data1['search'] = 'test';
  
  
  
  foreach ( $post_data1 as $key =&gt; $value1) {
      $post_items1[] = $key . '=' . $value1;
  }
  $post_string1 = implode ('&amp;', $post_items1);
  echo $post_string1."\n";
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 30);
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_USERAGENT,
    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)");
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
  //set data to be posted
  curl_setopt($curl_connection, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post_string);
  //perform our request
  $result1 = curl_exec($curl_connection);
  //show information regarding the request
  //$result1 =1;
  //close the connection
  //curl_close($curl_connection);
  if ($result1)
  echo "ok \n\n";
  else
  echo "nok\n";
  if(curl_errno($curl_connection))
  {
      echo 'Curl error: ' . curl_error($curl_connection)."\n";
  }
  echo($post_string1);
  echo $result1."\n";
  
  
  curl_close($curl_connection);
  
  
  ?&gt;
  </code></pre>