Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Re: [BLUG] has anybody seen this error before?

There are some directives in the default mod_ssl.conf file on most
installations of Apache that talk about IE not being able to close SSL
connections right or something. Might be that.

On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:57:51PM GMT, Joe Auty [joe@netmusician.org] said the following:
> Thanks Dave,
>
> I kind of suspected that it was nothing to be terribly worried about
> since I'm not experiencing any noticeable SSL problems and am running a
> recent OpenSSL set of libraries, but its persistence over a long period
> of time finally motivated the question :)
>
>
>
>
> Dave Monnier REN-ISAC wrote:
> > Joe Auty wrote:
> >
> > > [Wed May 30 11:32:09 2007] [info] (70014)End of file found: SSL
> > > handshake interrupted by system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!]
> >
> > This is the message that caused the rest. As the error text implies,
> > it can
> > be caused by someone stopping the SSL exchange before it was completed. If
> > you're seeing it multiple times in your logs it could mean any number of
> > things. A worm/exploit in the wild may not handle SSL well, a
> > worm/exploit
> > in the wild may be trying to exploit mod_ssl, someones client doesn't play
> > nice with your SSL implementation, etc, etc. Possible reasons go on
> > and on.
> >
> > The message alone doesn't indicate a problem on your side. I wouldn't
> > worry
> > about it unless you see other services also generating error.
> >
> > -Dave
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