Hello Xavier, 
thanks! for looking into this. Looks like strace comes up with a lot of tests
that fail on my fc4 system. Perhaps if i make a symbolic link for the 'not'(?)
standard installation of openssl libs for one of the tested ones below, things
would work?
see strace output below:


open("/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/tls/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/i686/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/lib/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/i686/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/i686/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/sse2/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/libssl.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
write(1, "\nHTTrack version 3.40-2-nossl (c"..., 4096
HTTrack version 3.40-2-nossl (compiled Aug 26 2006)
HTTrack version 3.40-2-nossl (compiled Aug 26 2006)