curl errno 35 (Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to [secure site]:443)

I'm trying to make a post to an external url using curl, the external page use https, here is the description of the server I'm using:

Server Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k PHP/5.3.0

The external url makes a redirect to another url that I send in the post, but everytime I try I get this error:

curl_errno=35 (Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to [secure site]:443)

I checked firebug for the response and it says

Failed to load source for: http://localhost/3PartyPHP_VPC_3Party_Auth_Capture_Order_DO.php

Here is the code I'm using

ob_start();// initialise Client URL object$ch = curl_init();// set the URL of the VPCcurl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $vpcURL);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $this->postData);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);  curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);curl_exec ($ch);if (curl_error($ch)) {    $this->errorMessage = "curl_errno=". curl_errno($ch) . " (" . curl_error($ch) . ")";}curl_close ($ch);