problem posting to a secure connection from a standalone?

[Geoff Canyon Rev]

I want to post to a secure url like so:

on mouseUp
   post base64encode("email=someone at gmail.com&password=mypass") to url
"https://simple-note.appspot.com/api/login"
   if the result is not empty then
      put the result into fld 1
   else
      put it into fld 1
   end if
end mouseUp

In the development environment this works fine. When I build a
standalone with just the above and nothing else, and all libraries
included, I get this error message:


error -Error with certificate at depth: 1  issuer   =
/C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate Authority  subject  =
/C=US/O=Google Inc/CN=Google Internet Authority  err 20:unable to get
local issuer certificate

Obviously I'm missing something obvious?