Monitoring HTTPS sites

I am running version 4.3.5
When I run xymonnet --version I don't get any SSL libraries - just my version.
I would like to be able to monitor some https sites but when I add the urls to the hosts.cfg file it fails.  I am running the web console for my Xymon server over https.  I am a newbie to linux so responses could be dummied down it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
-- Jewel