I've had the following back from whoiscart:
"The diagnostics pack was halfway wrong I'd say
"Your host is correct that Zend Optimizer is installed, there's a detection error in the diagnostics pack it seems, for later versions of Zend Opt.
"However, it is definitely not lying when it writes that your CURL doesn't have SSL support. Visit: www. woolconet.com/diagnostic/info.php and search for Curl. You'll see that the CURL Information section, doesn't cite /OpenSSL.
"You can send this to your host
http:// curl.haxx.se/docs/install.html
"Bottom line is that cURL needs to be compiled --with-ssl
Hope this helps!
Alex"
I then asked :
"Thanks for your prompt reply.
Before I send this on to my host, can you confirm that the entry below under openssl in www. woolconet.com/diagnostic/info.php is not relevant to Curl? It is probably what my host checked before their initial response. Sorry, this stuff is where I get very cold feet!
OpenSSL support enabled
OpenSSL Version OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003"
And their prompt reply was:
That's the one.
It should read:
CURL Information libcurl/7.15.3 zlib/1.2.1.2/ OpenSSL/x.x.x "
I hope this helps.
Once you've resolved this I'll complete the purchase of whoiscart. If you would like to install it to have an idea what the package is like, I'd be more than happy to let you do it.
Otherwise my original intention was to let whoiscart do the installation to save me time (and fingernails!).
John