Matthias Melcher,
Your suggestion worked, thanks!
As it turns out, only ServerPeerVerify needs to be set "false" to get the message to stop. So am leaving the others "true" (for now).
Marc,
Reading googled bits here and there, it looks (to me) like those items are relevant to the nsopenssl 2.x ns_httpsget etc. since they are not in nsopenssl 1.x, and 2.x has a few new ssl connect related commands[1]. Of course, this is just sharing ignorance on my part.. It would be nice to have the ns_params documented.
1 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/aolserver/nsopenssl/README?content-type=text%2Fplain&rev=1.3
