diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 4379303adde04f..6ea7c7c7b1f545 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (5 June 2010)
+- Constantine Sapuntzakis fixed a case of spurious SSL connection aborts using
+  libcurl and OpenSSL. "I tracked it down to uncleared error state on the
+  OpenSSL error stack - patch attached deals with that."
+
 Daniel Stenberg (5 June 2010)
 - Frank Meier added CURLINFO_PRIMARY_PORT, CURLINFO_LOCAL_IP and
   CURLINFO_LOCAL_PORT to curl_easy_getinfo().
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 63860cd19225ae..d95991984b4e8e 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o TFTP block id wrap
  o curl_multi_socket_action() timeout handles inaccuracy in timers better
  o SCP/SFTP failure to respect the timeout
+ o spurious SSL connection aborts with OpenSSL
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Kamil Dudka, Alex Bligh, Ben Greear, Hoi-Ho Chan, Howard Chu, Dirk Manske,
  Pavel Raiskup, John-Mark Bell, Eric Mertens, Tor Arntsen, Douglas Kilpatrick,
  Igor Novoseltsev, Jason McDonald, Dan Fandrich, Tanguy Fautre, Guenter Knauf,
- Julien Chaffraix, Kalle Vahlman, Frank Meier
+ Julien Chaffraix, Kalle Vahlman, Frank Meier, Constantine Sapuntzakis
 
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/lib/ssluse.c b/lib/ssluse.c
index 01eba90db9835a..1b4da33d4f6f60 100644
--- a/lib/ssluse.c
+++ b/lib/ssluse.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
 #include <openssl/x509v3.h>
 #include <openssl/dsa.h>
 #include <openssl/dh.h>
+#include <openssl/err.h>
 #else
 #include <rand.h>
 #include <x509v3.h>
@@ -882,6 +883,8 @@ int Curl_ossl_shutdown(struct connectdata *conn, int sockindex)
       int what = Curl_socket_ready(conn->sock[sockindex],
                              CURL_SOCKET_BAD, SSL_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT);
       if(what > 0) {
+        ERR_clear_error();
+
         /* Something to read, let's do it and hope that it is the close
            notify alert from the server */
         nread = (ssize_t)SSL_read(conn->ssl[sockindex].handle, buf,
@@ -1684,6 +1687,8 @@ ossl_connect_step2(struct connectdata *conn, int sockindex)
              || ssl_connect_2_reading == connssl->connecting_state
              || ssl_connect_2_writing == connssl->connecting_state);
 
+  ERR_clear_error();
+
   err = SSL_connect(connssl->handle);
 
   /* 1  is fine
@@ -2512,6 +2517,8 @@ static ssize_t ossl_send(struct connectdata *conn,
   int memlen;
   int rc;
 
+  ERR_clear_error();
+
   memlen = (len > (size_t)INT_MAX) ? INT_MAX : (int)len;
   rc = SSL_write(conn->ssl[sockindex].handle, mem, memlen);
 
@@ -2560,6 +2567,8 @@ static ssize_t ossl_recv(struct connectdata *conn, /* connection data */
   ssize_t nread;
   int buffsize;
 
+  ERR_clear_error();
+
   buffsize = (buffersize > (size_t)INT_MAX) ? INT_MAX : (int)buffersize;
   nread = (ssize_t)SSL_read(conn->ssl[num].handle, buf, buffsize);
   if(nread < 0) {