I am running this script from a hosted Windows server. So I cannot run a telnet. But, what I just did was bring the script to my local machine which has IIS and ActivePerl installed. Install the SSLeay and tested the script locally. It ran just fine which tells me it's the hosters server which is causing the problem. I am going to call them now. Hopefully, they can get to the bottom of this, else I will have to switch servers.