Comment 6 for bug 592442

It would appear this problem is somewhere upstream. I built the latest vanilla snapshot of 5.3 on both karmic and maverick and the issue still persists:

clint@ubuntu:~/pkg/php5/src/php5.3-201006151430$ sapi/cli/php ../../test_592442.php
now cas.ucdavis.edu...

Warning: fopen(): SSL operation failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:
error:140773F2:SSL routines:func(119):reason(1010) in /home/clint/pkg/php5/test_592442.php on line 4

Warning: fopen(): Failed to enable crypto in /home/clint/pkg/php5/test_592442.php on line 4

Warning: fopen(https://cas.ucdavis.edu/): failed to open stream: operation failed in /home/clint/pkg/php5/test_592442.php on line 4
try ssl to google...
clint@ubuntu:~/pkg/php5/src/php5.3-201006151430$

We should report this on PHP's bugtracker, but I think we need something more repeatable than your server URL.

Can you setup a similarly configured server elsewhere, repeat it, and share the configuration here so we can determine what the issue is exactly?