On Tue, 02 Oct 2018 21:18:34 +0000, Peter brooks wrote: ...
I can???t seem to pick up the refusal on the server end.
If you have misconfigured your HiddenServicePorts and 443 isn't actually mapped, tor itself does the rejection, and I don't know if/at what level that is logged. Likewise if you point it *to* the wrong port. I'd start misconfiguring on purpose and see how the logs change.
- Andreas