Are you getting a "Human Verification" string in your browsing tab when this happens? They have their CloudFront service security turned up a bit too high for the support center site, and I've been getting logged off while in middle of browsing many pages with this message, and occasionally being forced to solve a CAPTCHA. Wondering if that messed up your TLS/SSL connection.
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