Requests to httpd fail, logging an "Invalid method in request" error

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Issue

  • We make a request to our httpd server like https://servername:80/ and it fails. The following error is logged on httpd:

    [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Invalid method in request \x16\x03\x01
    

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Web Server (EWS)
  • Apache httpd

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