The browser shows an error: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long

The browser shows an error: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long It's posible you see the message ssl_error_rx_record_too_long in your browser when visiting a website via HTTPS.

This boils down to an error in the SSL implementation on the server.

To correct the issue we should carefully look at the following options:

• Port 443 should be open and accessible on the webserver.
• Firefox 3 could show this error when using a different port than 443 for SSL.
• Apache 2.x has to be configured to use port 443; the modification needs to be done in ports.conf as follows:

  --

  Listen 80

  Listen 443 https

  --

• Every domain using SSL should have it's own IP address, or should use SNI.
• Apache 2.x - it could happen that the vhost-configuration has to be changed: change <VirtualHost> into <VirtualHost _default_:443> to solve the problem.
• cPanel - This flaw can occur when the account has been migrated with the pkgacct. This can be solved by reinstalling the certificate.

When using a proxyserver that has not been set-up properly, this error could occur as well.