At my workplace, the traffic blocker/firewall has been getting progressively worse. I can\'t connect to my home machine on port 22, and lack of ssh access makes me sad. I was
Since apache has no problem whatsoever with CONNECT when no SSL is involved, I turn off SSL features and I use stunnel to serve an https version of my site. This does not require any recompilation, and allows your site to serve https normally. So far, the cleanest workaround I know.
See http://chm.duquesne.free.fr/blog/?p=281 for details.