How to debug Safari silently failing to connect to a secure WebSocket

Question

When doing new WebSocket(\'ws://server/\'); Safari connects fine, but when using new WebSocket(\'wss://server/\'); it completely fails (returns a <

Answer 1

Sysadmin fiddling has revealed a fix: setting OpenSSL to SSLv3 by default kills Safari, but letting it pick its own SSL version (all) works fine.