FEDERATED Table over SSL Connection

[Bruce Cohen]

Using MySQL 5.0.19. Trying to create a FEDERATED table to implement a MediaWiki extension. The create fails with the message:
ERROR 1429 (HY000): Unable to connect to foreign data source: database: 'test' username: 'root' hostname: 'server2'

The CREATE TABLE commands look like: CREATE TABLE test.fed_test (col1 varchar(255) not null, col2 varchar(255) not null) ENGINE=MyISAM;

On server1, the FEDERATED table CREATE looks like: CREATE TABLE test.fed_test (col1 varchar(255) not null, col2 varchar(255) not null) ENGINE=FEDERATED CONNECTION = 'mysql://root@server1/test/fed_test'

root has full privileges on the database on both servers.

The only thought I've had is that the two systems require SSL to talk to each other. Is this possibly interfering? And if so, how does one get around this?

Thanks.