Erratic SSL Error: Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS

From: Luke Venediger (lukev123_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 05:34:49 -0700

Hi,

I wonder if anyone is experiencing a similar problem. I have a
collection of web services that I access from a client over the
internet. I use SSL to secure the connection. My client application
makes thousands of calls to the web services each day, but every now
and then I get the following error message:

 System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was closed: Could
not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS. ---> System.IO.IOException:
Unable to read data from the transport connection. --->
System.IO.IOException: Unable to read data from the transport
connection. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: An existing
connection was forcibly closed by the remote host

It happens erratically, and I've checked my SSL settings and
certificates - all seems to be fine. Just every now and again I get
this SSL error. My client is a .Net 1.1 application. My web services
are running under IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003, .Net 1.1.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

Many Thanks,
Luke Venediger.

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