Hi, 
After enabling SSL on a CQ author instance (refer to http://dev.day.com/docs/en/cq/current/deploying/config-ssl.html), I am noticing continuous SSL Exceptions in the error log. 
See Stack trace below. 
23.11.2013 01:09:15.236 *WARN* [127.0.0.1 [1385168955233] <parse>] servletengine I/O error in execution: {} javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection has been shutdown: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.checkEOF(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.InputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.parseRequest(ServletHandlerImpl.java:450)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.process(ServletHandlerImpl.java:301)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker.run(HttpListener.java:644)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.handleUnknownRecord(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.getSession(Unknown Source)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.getCipherSuite(ServletHandlerImpl.java:978)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestImpl.recycle(RequestImpl.java:269)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.process(ServletHandlerImpl.java:289)
    ... 2 more
23.11.2013 01:09:15.834 *WARN* [127.0.0.1 [1385168955832] <parse>] servletengine I/O error in execution: {} javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection has been shutdown: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.checkEOF(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.AppInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.InputStream.read(Unknown Source)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.parseRequest(ServletHandlerImpl.java:450)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.process(ServletHandlerImpl.java:301)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.HttpListener$Worker.run(HttpListener.java:644)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.handleUnknownRecord(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.getSession(Unknown Source)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.getCipherSuite(ServletHandlerImpl.java:978)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.RequestImpl.recycle(RequestImpl.java:269)
    at com.day.j2ee.servletengine.ServletHandlerImpl.process(ServletHandlerImpl.java:289)
    ... 2 more
 
Any opinions on how this can be mitigated?
 
Regards
Joseph