ssl error after ugrade?!

[toshog]

hi..

after porting an application from an old redhat 8.0 to a new machine with 4.3.10 on a freebsd 4.10 i get:

fread(): SSL: fatal protocol error in ...... on line 12

 if (!($fp = fopen($the_file, "r"))) {
     die("could not open XML input");  // <== this opens fine...
  }

while ($data = fread($fp, 4096)) {  //  <== this is line 12
echo '.';
}

#php -m
...
mysql
openssl
.....

WHY?

thanks...