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This repository contains the Placeavote API.
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SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure against sunlightfoundation site #42

Closed sanel closed 8 years ago

sanel commented 8 years ago

Using location-by-zip on JDK 1.7 will trigger this exception:

com.pav.api.location.location-service=> javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure
 at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException (Alerts.java:192)
    sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException (Alerts.java:154)
    sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert (SSLSocketImpl.java:1991)
    sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord (SSLSocketImpl.java:1098)
    sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake (SSLSocketImpl.java:1344)
    sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake (SSLSocketImpl.java:1371)
    sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake (SSLSocketImpl.java:1355)
    org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket (SSLSocketFactory.java:543)

After some investigation, the cause is new certificate chain on http://sunlightfoundation.com site, which isn't supported by Java 7 (according to this: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/diagnosing_tls_ssl_and_https).

Solution is to use http on Java 7 and https on Java 8 for this site.