{"id":575,"date":"2013-12-19T13:54:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=575"},"modified":"2025-10-22T16:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:12:51","slug":"diagnosing-ssl-received-a-record-that-exceeded-the-maximum-permissible-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you setup an ssl cert but are getting the following:<\/p>\n

SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.<\/p>\n

1) Check that netstat -ntlp<\/code> shows httpd listening on 443
\n2) Check that port 443 is open in the firewall
\n3) Check for directive SSLEngine On<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you setup an ssl cert but are getting the following: SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. 1) Check that netstat -ntlp shows httpd listening on 443 2) Check that port 443 is open in the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-openssl-and-tls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":971,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vickistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}