SSLHandshakeException - Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

[Sudhir Dadwal]

Hello

I am new to this, I followed all steps but when I ran application I got below error

***ERROR*** SSLHandshakeException - Received fatal alert: handshake_failure javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192) at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1979) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1086) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1332) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1359) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1343) at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:573) at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:557) at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:414) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:180) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:326) at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:610) at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:445) at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.doExecute(AbstractHttpClient.java:835) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:108) at com.smartsheet.utils.HttpUtils.getResponse(HttpUtils.java:166) at com.smartsheet.utils.HttpUtils.getJsonPayload(HttpUtils.java:63) at com.smartsheet.restapi.service.RestfulSmartsheetService.getJsonPayload(RestfulSmartsheetService.java:85) at com.smartsheet.restapi.service.RestfulSmartsheetService.getUsers(RestfulSmartsheetService.java:51) at com.smartsheet.restapi.service.RetryingSmartsheetService.getUsers(RetryingSmartsheetService.java:56) at com.smartsheet.restapi.service.ErrorContextualizingSmartsheetService.getUsers(ErrorContextualizingSmartsheetService.java:50) at com.smartsheet.tools.SmartsheetBackupService.backupOrgTo(SmartsheetBackupService.java:94) at com.smartsheet.tools.SmartsheetBackupTool.main(SmartsheetBackupTool.java:107)

Any help will be appreciated to this issue.

Thanks

[XpertDesperado]

I'm also seeing this issue.

[Apratim Ghosh]

I was able to fix it by just upgrading to the latest JRE. I never thought it will be a fix, did it as hunch :-)

I used Java SE Runtime Environment 8u251. Hope you find this useful..