Running curl with OpenSSL 0.9.8 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 server causes handshake error?

Question

If I run curl against a machine that is running OpenSSL 1.0.0e for example:

curl -v https://shumaker.flexrentalsolutions.com

on a machine t

Answer 1

This isn't a good solution, but it's better than wheel spinning, so I'm going to add it here as an answer:

Use the GnuTLS module instead of mod_ssl, if you can. It's not bound to OpenSSL, so this horrible, day-wasting problem is neatly sidestepped.