Comment 7 for bug 1475228

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Timmie (timmie) wrote :

Same issue here when connecting to https://bootswatch.com via python-requests

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela / Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

dpkg -l openssl
1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.15

openssl s_client -ssl3 -connect bootswatch.com:443

shows:

140204664612512:error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:1262:SSL alert number 40
140204664612512:error:1409E0E5:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_BYTES:ssl handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:598

openssl s_client -connect bootswatch.com:443
CONNECTED(00000003)
140005724673696:error:14077438:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:tlsv1 alert internal error:s23_clnt.c:770:

curl bootswatch.com:443 -3
<html>
<head><title>400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</title></head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<center><h1>400 Bad Request</h1></center>
<center>The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port</center>
<hr><center>cloudflare-nginx</center>
</body>
</html>

See further info similar observation:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/22858593

Why doe this happen & what could eb done?