With POODLE, everyone is hurrying to disable SSLv3 on their webservers. However some sites still have clients that for whatever reason have not updated from XP / IE6 (it’s only been out 13 years, what’s the rush?) Instead of immediately locking them out you might like to give them a few days warning with some Apache 2.2 config as below:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on
RewriteCond %{SSL:SSL_PROTOCOL} =SSLv3
RewriteRule .*              http://www.webscalability.com/blog/  [L,R]

Set the RewriteRule to an explanatory page of your choosing (if it’s on the same HTTPS server, you’ll need to exclude the page to prevent a rewrite loop).

If you don’t have IE6 to hand, you can test this as below:

echo "GET /" | openssl s_client -connect yourpoodleserver.com:443 -ssl3 2>&1