PEAR SOAP and SSL Problem

Greetings,

I am trying to attach to a .NET Web Service via SSL. I can and parse to
non-SSL services without incident. I've read every bit of documentation
that I can find the last few days, where everyone says its possible.

My problem is that CURL connection, but it drops an empty request, so
the WS fails, as its looking for an XML payload that never comes.

The code that I'm using:

//--------------------------------------------------------------------

require_once "SOAP/Client.php";

$ClientCode = "ClientCode";
$UserID = "UserID";
$UserPassword = "password";

$params = array('ClientCode'=>$ClientCode,
'UserID'=>$UserID,
'UserPassword'=>$UserPassword);

$client = new SOAP_Client(
"https://secure.someservice.net/Service/Service.asmx"
);

// CURL options to bypass SSL certificate checking
$client->setOpt('curl', CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
$client->setOpt('curl', CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
$client->setOpt('curl', CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);

$response = $client->call('SystemValidate',$params, array(
'style' => 'literal',
'namespace'=> 'urn:SystemValidate',
'soapaction' =>
'https://secure.someservice.net/Service/SystemValidate',
'use' => 'literal',
'trace'=>'1'));

if (strtolower(get_class($response)) == "soap_fault") {
print "Error! " . $response->message;
} else {
print "{". print_r($response) ."}";
}
print "<hr />Debug<pre>";

// show me the Request Payload
print "<p>REQ:<br>";
print nl2br(htmlspecialchars($client->__getlastrequest()));
print "</pre>";
print "<hr /><pre>";

// show me the response
print "<p>RES:<br>";
print nl2br(htmlspecialchars($client->__getlastresponse()));
print "</pre>";


//--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the end I get an empty request payload. I read everything about SSL
certificate checking, and placed the right code to bypass that. I'm
stumped, so any help will be appreciated.

Regards,
Richard Rosa