[Xitami] xitami pro ssl

[Michael S. Kazarin]

I've installed the free trial of xitami pro 2.4c3 to give a testdrive to
SSL, certs and so on.
(OS: w2ksp2 and w98 on 4 different machines intel and amd architecture -
same result). As a regular server on port 80  it works fine, but when I
access secure port 443 it fails to serve pages and issues an error. However
the server does not crash and continues serving requests on port 80. Setting
debug=1 in sslhttp.cfs for some reason leaves no trace.
Console.log follows:
2001/12/17 14:29:03: xilrwp: ready for LRWP connections on port 81
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: preparing for connections on port 80
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: ready for HTTP connections on port 80
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: accepting connections on 127.0.0.1
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smtftpc: preparing for connections on port 21
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smtftpc: ready for FTP connections on port 21
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: preparing for connections on port 443
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: ready for SSL connections on port 443
2001/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: accepting connections on 127.0.0.1
2001/12/17 14:30:04: smtssl:Error error:1407609B:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request:
2001/12/17 14:30:04: smtssl:Error error:1407609B:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request:

Xitami.log:
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: preparing for connections on port 80
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: ready for HTTP connections on port 80
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smthttp: accepting connections on 127.0.0.1
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smtftpc: preparing for connections on port 21
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smtftpc: ready for FTP connections on port 21
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: preparing for connections on port 443
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: ready for SSL connections on port 443
 1/12/17 14:29:03: smtssl: accepting connections on 127.0.0.1
 1/12/17 14:30:04: smtssl:Error error:1407609B:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request:
 1/12/17 14:30:04: smtssl:Error error:1407609B:SSL
routines:SSL23_GET_CLIENT_HELLO:http request:

The date representation is strange in xitami.log. But it doesn't seem to be
the reason as changing system date to 1999 doesn't correct the issue. The
most puzzling thing for me is that I remember that I got it working once a
year ago or so. Now I can't. Can other software conflict xipro? How can I
get it working?
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

Mike.