Ideas on how to measure performance hit of SSL on a VIP?

Thanks for the suggestions. I ran the AOL Test Page app from a service on the Web and it gave my site, VHA.COM an "A" for using Keep Alives. That was the only "A". I don't have access to a new enough version of cURL right now to get that time_appconnect variable but I'll work on that and let you know. That looks interesting. And I checked my HTTP profile: we're using the default which has Max Requests=0. Thanks again.