I\'m getting started with the facebook API. I downloaded the example code from facebook, configured with my appID and secret keys.
Disable the SSL security feature
Though I don't recognize that exact error message, SSL problems when communicating with Facebook via the PHP SDK (and thus Curl) are common. Have you tried doing something like this?
Facebook::$CURL_OPTS[CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER] = false;
This will disable the SSL "Verify Peer" security feature so that it stops generating the error message.