I am trying to install composer (though to be honest I really have no idea how it fully works and documentation seems to be quite poor) on my MediaTemple DV machine. I am using their [instructions][1]

Trying to install globally using:

$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

My command line (again using putty and logged into my server as root) thinks for a second, then sets up for next prompt. I run a simple ls -l to check for the file it should have downloaded with no luck.

Any idea what could be causing the issue? I have tested and do in fact have curl installed.

UPDATE 1

Based on the first answer, the verbose response is:

> $ curl -vs https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
> * About to connect() to getcomposer.org port 443
> *   Trying 37.59.4.156... connected
> * Connected to getcomposer.org (37.59.4.156) port 443
> * successfully set certificate verify locations:
> *   CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt   CApath: none
> * SSLv2, Client hello (1): SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server hello (2): SSLv3, TLS handshake, CERT (11): SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server key
> exchange (12): SSLv3, TLS handshake, Server finished (14): SSLv3, TLS
> handshake, Client key exchange (16): SSLv3, TLS change cipher, Client
> hello (1): SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20): SSLv3, TLS change
> cipher, Client hello (1): SSLv3, TLS handshake, Finished (20): SSL
> connection using DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
> * Server certificate:
> *        subject: /C=CH/CN=dl.packagist.org/[email protected]
> *        start date: 2012-07-07 23:25:35 GMT
> *        expire date: 2013-07-10 02:55:12 GMT
> * SSL: certificate subject name 'dl.packagist.org' does not match target host name 'getcomposer.org'
> * Closing connection #0
> * SSLv3, TLS alert, Client hello (1):
> 
> 
>   [1]: http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md