Journal: SSL on the cellular phone

Irritation beyond irritation has struck with the inability to get a cellphone to connect over WAP to a SSL server I set up. I am using a certificate that I generated and Tomcat as the server. The WAP phone is able to connect to it without ssl but with ssl, I get a 500 error. The 500 error leaves me baffled because, I see no servlet activity or connection activity in the log. Is something weird going on with cell phones and SSL? So I start my search deep into cellular land to see if there is any information as to what browser a motorola c333 on ATT service has. All to no avail. So I look to see if WAP phones are able to connect to a SSL server that has a home grown certificate with no luck either. There just seems to be no information available.