curl crashes! How do I update curl?

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zabersoft Wrote:Hi - Wow that was WAY too german for me.

Sorry my fault... When you know what your doing you can use the method you described. BUT here are a lot admins that don't know very much about linux servers and the services running on and for this sort of admins the method with apt-pinning ist the better one...

Back to the problem. I haven't had any problems with curl yet so I don't know if I can be of much help.
Does it work when you use the curl code in a php file and execute that php file from the console? Maybe the fastcgi implementation doesnt send all headers that are needed for the proper function of your php curl code.
Try to encrase the loglevel of mod_fastcgi / apache if possible. Have you any fastcgi errors in your error.log while the script throws Error 500?