--- a/prosody	Mon Aug 28 21:05:12 2017 +0200
+++ b/prosody	Tue Aug 29 15:24:53 2017 +0200
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@
 	end});
 
 	local http = require "net.http"
-	local config_ssl = config.get("*", "ssl")
+	local config_ssl = config.get("*", "ssl") or {}
 	local https_client = config.get("*", "client_https_ssl")
 	http.default.options.sslctx = require "core.certmanager".create_context("client_https port 0", "client",
 		{ capath = config_ssl.capath, cafile = config_ssl.cafile, verify = "peer", }, https_client);