Problem with configuration of OpenSSL

Hi.

I try to set up SSL on a TYPO3-Website using TYPO3-Starter.

I used the tutorial on this site:
http://www.teialehrbuch.de/PERL/1103...r-Windows.html
and
http://tud.at/programm/apache-ssl-win32-howto.php3

which resulted in four files:
puc.key
puc.cert
privkey.pem
puc.der.crt

I set up a ssl.conf for my Apache which I'm fairly sure is called
correctly (There were critical syntax errors in it and the apache
couldn't start until i corrected them, for that I'm sure the file is
found).
But wenn I try to get to httpS://www.mydomain.tld I get an error often
mentioned in Google but never discussed to an end which would solve it
for my part:

The errorlog shows:
Invalid method in request \x80L\x01\x03

I get it that I misconfigured SSL but can't get it running. If someone
could please have a look on my ssl.conf and tell me where's the hook
I'm hanging onto?

Thanks and best regards
Jens

ssl.conf:

SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
AddType application/x-x509-ca-cert .crt
AddType application/x-pkcs7-crl .crl

SSLPassPhraseDialog builtin

SSLMutex default

SSLSessionCache none

<VirtualHost *:443>
SSLEngine on
ServerName www.mydomain.tld:443
DocumentRoot "The same as the default website on port 80"
ServerAdmin admin@mydomain.tld
TransferLog logs/access_log

#SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/puc.der.crt <- this doesn't work eighter
SSLCertificateFile conf/ssl/puc.cert
SSLCertificateKeyFile conf/ssl/puc.key

SetEnvIf User-Agent ".*MSIE.*" \
nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown \
downgrade-1.0 force-response-1.0

CustomLog logs/ssl_request_log.log \
"%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \"%r\" %b"

ErrorLog logs/error_ssl.log
</VirtualHost>

Sorry, forgot the system's setup:

[Fri Jan 12 07:52:09 2007] [notice] Apache/2.0.55 (Win32)
mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.8d PHP/4.4.1 configured -- resuming normal
operations
[Fri Jan 12 07:52:09 2007] [notice] Server built: Oct 9 2005 19:16:56