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Allistair Crossley

WARNING: Exception getting SSL attributes
javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated
       at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.getPeerCertificateChain(DashoA6275)
       at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JSSESupport.getPeerCertificateChain(JSSESupport.java:118)
       at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.action(Http11Processor.java:543)
       at org.apache.coyote.Response.action(Response.java:216)
       at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.postParseRequest(CoyoteAdapter.java:314)
       at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:221)
       at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:405)
       at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11Protocol.java:380)
       at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:508)
       at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:533)
       at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)

The SSL support in 4.1.12 is broken with JVM 1.4.x.
You need to copy http://gump.covalent.net/jars/latest/jakarta-tomcat-connectors/tomcat-util.jar jar to $CATALINA_HOME/server/lib to fix.
Otherwise you can wait, hopefully not long, for the next version (4.1.13) where the bug should be fixed.