My guess: SSLv3 has been dropped from OpenSSL, which means hitting a SSLv3 server just fails to connect quite early in the process, so there would not even be c

My guess: SSLv3 has been dropped from OpenSSL, which means hitting a SSLv3 server just fails to connect quite early in the process, so there would not even be cert reading, plus IIRC the connection error can be very obtuse, which means sslping could not do that: > tell you what's wrong