coyote connector and SSL generates exception for every GET request - Tomcat 4.1.12

[HAVENS,PETER (HP-Cupertino,ex3)]

Can someone help me understand why I am seeing these exceptions in my
Catalina.out.  I am running tomcat 4.1.12 and I have it configured to use
coyote connector in my server.xml
 
---- Server.xml snippet ------------------
    <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
               port="280" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
               enableLookups="false" redirectPort="50000"
               acceptCount="10" debug="0" connectionTimeout="60000"/>
 
    <!-- Define an SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 50000 -->
    <Connector className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteConnector"
               port="50000" minProcessors="5" maxProcessors="75"
               enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10" debug="0"
           scheme="https" secure="true">
      <Factory
className="org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteServerSocketFactory"
               clientAuth="false" protocol="TLS"
               keystoreFile="/etc/opt/mx/config/security/certificates"
               keystorePass="changeit"
 
---- End Server.xml snippet ------------------
 
Here are the exceptions being generated and found in my Catalina.out for
every SSL GET request.
 
--- Catalina.out snippet ------------------
Oct 25, 2002 4:02:46 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor action
WARNING: Exception getting SSL attributes 
javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated
      at
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSessionImpl.getPeerCertificateChain(DashoA62
75)
      at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JSSESupport.getPeerCertificateChain(JSSESupport.j
ava: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$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConne
ction(Http11Protocol.java:380)
      at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:508)
      at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:533)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
 
--- End Catalina.out snippet ------------------
 
 
Thank you very much,
 
-Peter