Yo, d00dZ!! I've patched ogg123 to handle a playback case (streaming download) when I was connected to my server with SSL (an https:// URL), when the server cert is not able to be verified. I don't know if only the latest curl library does this, or if this hack is applicable to older curl code, so I haven't tried to wrap this in any way. What the patches do is to enable an ``--insecure'' option (I did not bother with a short option, as I don't know if it is useful enough to warrant one), which does the same as invoking `curl --insecure', which is to download the requested URL whether or not the server can be verified. Such as if the server cert name does not match the server name -- relatively common. I don't know how applicable this is, if at all, to others, but if anyone cares, the four patches with names ending in `curl-insecure-patch' can be found at https://NOSPAM.dyndns.dk/hacks/ogg123/ and are described in the README at the above. Need review and cleaning. Help yourself. As usual, no guarantees, &c. barry bouwsma