Web App SSL Error

[jhoyt4]

• Platform:

Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04 for mythbackend
Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.04 with firefox for web browser
macOS 15.3.1 with chrome or safari for web browser

• • MythTV version:
    fixes/v35

• Package version:
  mythbuntu nightly

• Component:
  web app

What steps will reproduce the bug?

Enable an SSL certificate

Add certificates to $HOME/.mythtv/certificates
or set hostSSLKey and hostSSLCertificate keys in the database settings table

Use a web browser to access the website at port 6554 with https://

How often does it reproduce? Is there a required condition?

every time https access is attempted

What is the expected behaviour?

a working website

What do you see instead?

Web browser error:
This site can’t be reached
mythtv.home.jgh4.com unexpectedly closed the connection.

Error from mythbackend:

2025-03-08T18:54:41.876618-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: I HTTP0 mythhttpmetaservice.cpp:126 (MythHTTPMetaService) Service '/services/' introspection complete
2025-03-08T18:54:41.976395-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: I HTTP1 mythhttpmetaservice.cpp:126 (MythHTTPMetaService) Service 'Myth' introspection complete
2025-03-08T18:54:41.976482-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: I HTTP4 mythhttpmetaservice.cpp:126 (MythHTTPMetaService) Service 'Config' introspection complete
2025-03-08T18:54:41.976520-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: I HTTP3 mythhttpmetaservice.cpp:126 (MythHTTPMetaService) Service 'Status' introspection complete
2025-03-08T18:54:42.076945-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: I HTTP3 mythhttpmetaservice.cpp:126 (MythHTTPMetaService) Service 'Capture' introspection complete
2025-03-08T18:54:47.196978-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP6 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting
2025-03-08T18:54:47.197240-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP7 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting
2025-03-08T18:54:48.201261-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP8 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting
2025-03-08T18:54:48.201390-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP9 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting
2025-03-08T18:54:53.220350-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP10 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting
2025-03-08T18:54:53.220522-05:00 mythtv mythbackend: mythbackend[16264]: W HTTP11 mythhttpparser.cpp:67 (Read) HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '#26#003#001' - quitting

Additional information

similar issues reported on Fedora 41, fixes/35

On the mythbackend server:
mythbackend[22160]: HTTPParser: Invalid HTTP request start '' - quitting

On the client:
OpenSSL SSL_connect: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL in connection to myth.example.com:6554