!! ERROR: Protocol https not supported or disabled in libcurl

[chaitanya v. <cva...@gm...>]

I have installed the curl-loader-0.49 on cent OS 5.0. For http traffic, the
tool is working great. But, when I tried the https access, the connections
are failing and the https.logs says " !! ERROR: Protocol https not supported
or disabled in libcurl".

Can you guide me what exactly need to be done to fix the issue....

Thanks,
Penmetsa