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What should I do if I get error messages like “Spurious SSL handshake interrupt[Hint: Usually just one of those OpenSSL confusions!?]”?

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What should I do if I get error messages like “Spurious SSL handshake interrupt[Hint: Usually just one of those OpenSSL confusions!?]”?

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The reason for these error messages is because of the idle server maintenance that is done in Apache – when Apache sends a dummy connect request on all the ports that it listens to – and mod_ssl doesn’t know what is happening. One solution to get rid of the problem is by having the statement “Listen 443” ahead of “Listen 80” in httpd.conf (and getting rid of “Listen 443” from ssl.conf.