Converting fsocketopen to curl - php

Question

I need to convert the following fsocketopen code to curl so I can use a client SSL certificate. At the moment SSL is turned off so I can get curl working. Here is the current code slightly amended as it is a secure site.
$fp = fsockopen("tcp://XX.XXX.XXX.XX", 5025, $errno, $errstr, 4);
if (!$fp)
{
echo "$errstr ($errno)<br />\n";
}
else
{
$out = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" standalone=\"yes\"?>";
$out .= "<LoginRequest>";
$out .= "<UserId>". $userID . "</UserId>";
$out .= "</LoginRequest>";
$myout = chr(strlen($out)/256);
$myout .= chr(strlen($out)%256);
$myout .= $out;
fwrite($fp, $myout);
stream_set_timeout($fp,15);
$in = fread($fp, 11024);
This code does work, but if instead of using fread with a value I use
while (feof($fp)) {
echo fgets($fp, 256);
}
It doesn't work as the server never sends an end of file, and never closes the connection (until 3 minutes has passed)
I try to use the following curl, but it just sits there hanging.
$url = "XXX.XX.XXX.XXX";
$port = 5025;
$out = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" standalone=\"yes\"?>";
$out .= "<LoginRequest>";
$out .= "<UserId>". $userID . "</UserId>";
$out .= "</LoginRequest>";
$myout = chr(strlen($out)/256);
$myout .= chr(strlen($out)%256);
$myout .= $out;
// more details at http://php.net/curl
$ch = curl_init();
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PORT, $port);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $myout);
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, $myout);
// fetch response and close the socket
$response = curl_exec($ch);
echo '<pre>', curl_error($ch) . "\n";
curl_close($ch);
echo "response 3 =" . $response;
The error I get is
Operation timed out after 30000 milliseconds with 0 bytes receivedenter code here
Any ideas?