I was running into the same issue as described in this question: cURL SSL connect error 35 with NSS error -5961
$ curl --verbose https://api.hostname.com
* About to connect() to api.hostname.com port 443 (#0)
* Trying 1.2.3.4... connected
* Connected to api.hostname.com (1.2.3.4) port 443 (#0)
* Initializing NSS with certpath: sql:/etc/pki/nssdb
* CAfile: /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
CApath: none
* NSS error -5961
* Closing connection #0
* SSL connect error
curl: (35) SSL connect error
I followed user qingbo's advice after noticing that the server (CentOS 6.5 VM) had not been updated in a while. I ran this command:
$ yum update -y nss curl libcurl
and then re-ran the curl command and this time I received an expected HTTP/1.1 200 OK.
My question is - what did updating the nss, curl and libcurl packages do that fixed the connection issue?
