Hello, I try to use stunnel for web browsing (https), and I am not successful. (While mail client against IMAP server works fine). Can anybody give me a hint what to try?

The situation: Windows XP SP3, MSIE 8 (or Firefox 43.0.1. for check), stunnel 5.42

stunnel.conf :

debug = 7 [https_test] client = yes accept = 127.0.0.1:8888 connect = www.stunnel.org:443

http://127.0.0.1:8888/ -> Error HTTP 404 Not Found

2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Running on Windows 5.1 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: No limit detected for the number of clients 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: stunnel 5.42 on x86-pc-msvc-1500 platform 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: Compiled/running with OpenSSL 1.0.2l-fips 25 May 2017 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: Threading:WIN32 Sockets:SELECT,IPv6 TLS:ENGINE,FIPS,OCSP,PSK,SNI 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: errno: (*_errno()) 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[ui]: GUI message loop initialized 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Running on Windows 5.1 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: Reading configuration from file stunnel.conf 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: UTF-8 byte order mark detected 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: FIPS mode disabled 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Compression disabled 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: PRNG seeded successfully 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [XXXXXX-imap] 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Ciphers: HIGH:!DH:!aNULL:!SSLv2 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG6[main]: Initializing service [https_test] 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Ciphers: HIGH:!DH:!aNULL:!SSLv2 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: TLS options: 0x03000004 (+0x03000000, -0x00000000) 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: No certificate or private key specified 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG4[main]: Service [https_test] needs authentication to prevent MITM attacks 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG5[main]: Configuration successful 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Listening file descriptor created (FD=236) 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Service [XXXXXX-imap] (FD=236) bound to 127.0.0.1:143 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Listening file descriptor created (FD=260) 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[main]: Service [https_test] (FD=260) bound to 127.0.0.1:8888 2017.11.02 13:01:50 LOG7[cron]: Cron thread initialized 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: Found 1 ready file descriptor(s) 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: FD=236 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: FD=248 ifds=r-x ofds=--- 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: Service [https_test] accepted (FD=304) from 127.0.0.1:3424 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: Creating a new thread 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[main]: New thread created 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Service [https_test] started 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on local socket 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG5[0]: Service [https_test] accepted connection from 127.0.0.1:3424 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: s_connect: connecting 207.192.69.165:443 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: s_connect: s_poll_wait 207.192.69.165:443: waiting 10 seconds 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG5[0]: s_connect: connected 207.192.69.165:443 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG5[0]: Service [https_test] connected remote server from XX.XXX.XXX.XXX:3425 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Option TCP_NODELAY set on remote socket 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Remote descriptor (FD=320) initialized 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: SNI: sending servername: www.stunnel.org 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Peer certificate not required 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): before/connect initialization 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv2/v3 write client hello A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read server hello A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Certificate verification disabled 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Certificate verification disabled 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Certificate verification disabled 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Certificate verification disabled 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Certificate verification disabled 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read server certificate A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read server key exchange A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Client certificate not requested 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read server done A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 write client key exchange A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 write change cipher spec A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 write finished A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 flush data 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read server session ticket A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: TLS state (connect): SSLv3 read finished A 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: 1 client connect(s) requested 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: 1 client connect(s) succeeded 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: 0 client renegotiation(s) requested 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: 0 session reuse(s) 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: TLS connected: new session negotiated 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Peer certificate was cached (7519 bytes) 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG6[0]: Negotiated TLSv1.2 ciphersuite ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256-bit encryption) 2017.11.02 13:02:11 LOG7[0]: Compression: null, expansion: null 2017.11.02 13:02:16 LOG7[0]: TLS alert (read): warning: close notify 2017.11.02 13:02:16 LOG6[0]: TLS closed (SSL_read) 2017.11.02 13:02:16 LOG7[0]: Sent socket write shutdown 2017.11.02 13:02:21 LOG3[0]: readsocket: Connection reset by peer (WSAECONNRESET) (10054) 2017.11.02 13:02:21 LOG5[0]: Connection reset: 565 byte(s) sent to TLS, 399 byte(s) sent to socket 2017.11.02 13:02:21 LOG7[0]: Remote descriptor (FD=320) closed 2017.11.02 13:02:21 LOG7[0]: Local descriptor (FD=304) closed 2017.11.02 13:02:21 LOG7[0]: Service [https_test] finished (0 left) 2017.11.02 13:02:50 LOG6[cron]: Executing cron jobs 2017.11.02 13:02:50 LOG6[cron]: Cron jobs completed in 0 seconds 2017.11.02 13:02:50 LOG7[cron]: Waiting 86400 seconds