SSL peer shut down incorrectly in Java

Question

I need to make a request through a HTTPS protocol. I wrote the following code:

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

import org.junit.Test;

public class XMLHandlerTest {
    private static final String URL = "https://ancine.band.com.br/xml/pgrt1_dta_20150303.xml";

    @Test
    public void testRetrieveSchedule() {
        try {
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(URL).openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            System.out.println(responseCode);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

}

I got this exception stacktrace with a java.io.EOFException:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:953)
    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 sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:563)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1301)
    at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:468)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:338)
    at br.com.onebr.onesocial.arte1.service.core.scheduler.Arte1XMLHandlerTest.testRetrieveSchedule(Arte1XMLHandlerTest.java:16)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:459)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:675)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:382)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:192)
Caused by: java.io.EOFException: SSL peer shut down incorrectly
    at sun.security.ssl.InputRecord.read(InputRecord.java:482)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:934)
    ... 32 more

I got successful response from https://google.com but this error from URL above (https://ancine.band.com.br/xml/pgrt1_dta_20150303.xml).

Using PHP, .NET and NodeJS that URL works fine.

Anyone has any idea why this happening?

Answer 1

That is a problem of security protocol. I am using TLSv1 but the host accept only TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 then I changed the protocol in Java with the instruction below:

System.setProperty("https.protocols", "TLSv1.1");

Answer 2

You can set protocol versions in system property as :

overcome ssl handshake error

System.setProperty("https.protocols", "TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2");

Answer 3

Apart from the accepted answer, other problems can cause the exception too. For me it was that the certificate was not trusted (i.e., self-signed cert and not in the trust store).

If the certificate file does not exists, or could not be loaded (e.g., typo in path) can---in certain circumstances---cause the same exception.

Answer 4

This error is generic of the security libraries and might happen in other cases. In case other people have this same error when sending emails with javax.mail to a smtp server. Then the code to force other protocol is setting a property like this:

prop.put("mail.smtp.ssl.protocols", "TLSv1.2");            

//And just in case probably you need to set these too
prop.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", true);    
prop.put("mail.smtp.ssl.trust", {YOURSERVERNAME});

Answer 5

please close the android studio and remove the file

.gradle

and

.idea

file form your project .Hope so it is helpful

Location:Go to Android studio projects->your project ->see both file remove (.gradle & .idea)

Answer 6

Below code worked for me You have to add below configuration in surefire plugin

<configuration> <argLine>-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.1</argLine> </configuration>

Answer 7

As @Zigri2612 suggested, what worked for me was to add TLS https.protocols, but i had to do it with white spaces instead of comma separated values:

System.setProperty("https.protocols", "TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3");