I got this report from Pedro Varangot, and I'm forwarding this to the libcurl
mailing list with his permission.

I hope it helps someone.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 16:40:40 -0000
From: Pedro Varangot <peter_at_www.com.ar>
To: daniel_at_haxx.se
Subject: Re: Error: curl: (35) SSL: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
    Daniel, i have been dealing with this error previously and have now fixed what was causing it for me.
    I was using curl indirectly by an xmlrpclib wich supports ssl by using curl in php.
    Aparrently there was nothing wrong neither with curl or openssl, it was apache that iddles for two long or didn't accepted the conection because of resource limits. I got to know this by sniffing.
    In my case it was enough with raising the MaxClients (the default for apache usually is 150, wich is fairly low for a large production server), but in other cases raising the number of file descriptors allowed per process should also be necesary.
    I have no idea why did this got reported as an unknown ssl error by curl.
    Thanks and keep up the good work.
    Peter.
    Admin at http://www.com.ar/.
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