App requires port 8081, gets errors using HTTPS

[dreed2010]

Entschuldigung, bitte. Ich spreche nur ein bisschen Deutsch.

I have a third-party XML application compiled into Apache as a module that requires using port 8081. I have run it successfully for years using HTTP on Apache 1.3.27 (the version required by the vendor), but now I need to run it using HTTPS.

So, I installed openssl-0.9.4 and mod_ssl-2.8.14-1.3.27 and the installation seemed to go well except for the question "File to Patch: ", which I had to skip since I had no answer for it.

The application still runs fine when I browse to http://my.app.com:8081, but when I try HTTPS using https://my.app.com:8081 I get a message that "Secure Connection Failed - SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)." An error codes reference says, "This generally indicates that the remote peer system has a flawed implementation of SSL, and is violating the SSL specification."

The Apache error log says "Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01"

Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot this?

Thanks,
Dave