RestEasy client with SSL/TLS receives SSLHandshakeException/handshake_failure
Issue
- RestEasy client is not sending the SNI (service Name Indication) extension to a SSL/TLS endpoint.
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A RestEasy client is failing to establish SSL/TLS communication with the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" 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:2023) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1125) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387) at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:535) at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLSocketFactory.java:403) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:177) at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:304) at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:611) at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:446) at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.doExecute(AbstractHttpClient.java:863) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:82) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:106) at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.4
- 7
- Java Development Kit (JDK)
- Sun/Oracle 8
- OpenJDK 8
- RestEasy client accessing an HTTS endpoint with required SNI extension.
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