SSL handshake problems with xmlsectool

[Peter Schober]

* Wessel, Keith William <kwessel at illinois.edu> [2012-10-16 18:13]:
> Our admins recently made a change to our Apache SSL cipher suite configuration to only support SSLv3.
> 
> Now, xmlsectool's unhappy with SSL handshaking:

Why do you need xmlsectool to access https resources?
(Is transport layer security even relevant for the use case?)
-peter