I suggest overriding select function in module HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn.
The new select function checks args & if "our case" happens it calls IO::Socket::SSL::peek function instead of CORE::select.
I have tested the code on my server - it's works fine. Timeout in this implementation should work too. plz have a look at the patch:

diff -u orig/SSL.pm mod/SSL.pm
--- orig/SSL.pm	2008-02-12 03:27:03.000000000 +0200
+++ mod/SSL.pm	2009-05-05 17:38:50.000000000 +0300
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@
 
 use vars qw($VERSION @ISA $PROTO $DEBUG);
 
+BEGIN {
+no strict;
+*{"HTTP::Daemon::ClientConn::select"} = \&HTTP::Daemon::SSL::select;
+}
+
 use IO::Socket::SSL;
 use HTTP::Daemon;
 
@@ -93,6 +98,42 @@
 
 =cut
 
+my %save_handlers;
+
+sub select($$$$)
+{
+    my ($r,$w,$e,$timeout) = @_;
+    unless (!defined($w) && !defined($e)) {
+    return CORE::select($r,$w,$e,$timeout);
+    } 
+    # may be our case.
+    # detail check this:
+    my $value = vec($r,0,length($r)*8);
+    return CORE::select($r,$w,$e,$timeout) if ( ($value & ($value - 1)) or (!$value)) ; # must only one bit set (see HTTP::Daemon code)
+    my $fd;
+    for($fd=0;$fd < length($r)*8;$fd++) { last if (vec($r,$fd,1));};
+
+    die "bad thing happen ;-(" if ($fd == length($r)*8);
+    return CORE::select($r,$w,$e,$timeout) unless (defined($save_handlers{$fd}));
+
+    # ok. it's our case
+    my ($buf,$res);
+
+    { # set timeout of operation
+    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
+    alarm $timeout;
+    $res = $save_handlers{$fd}->peek($buf,1);
+    alarm 0;
+    }
+    if (!defined($res) or $res < 0) {
+    # error or timeout
+    # FIXME: timeout ???
+    return undef;
+    }
+    # $res >= 0) 
+    return 1;
+}
+
 sub new
 {
     my ($class, %args) = @_;
@@ -109,6 +150,7 @@
 	my ($sock, $peer) = IO::Socket::SSL::accept($self,$pkg);
     if ($sock) {
         ${*$sock}{'httpd_daemon'} = $self;
+        $save_handlers{fileno($sock)} = $sock;
         return wantarray ? ($sock, $peer) : $sock;
     }
     else {

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