Description:
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cURL no longer executes, script just dies. Happened with new installation of 4.4.0-4 my webhost installed. I cannot upgrade PHP myself, hence my choosing 4.4.1

PHP Version: 4.4.0-4
cURL Version: 7.15.0



Reproduce code:
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$ch = curl_init($host_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $host_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSLCERT, $cert);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $curl_ref);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

Expected result:
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var $result should either return Array of data or error.

Actual result:
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$result returns nothing, script dies after curl_exec(). Even die() or echo commands written beneath curl_exec() do not show up. Possible PHP crash?