Webview HTTPS handshake failed

Question

I'm trying to access a website from an Android application with WebView library, so I have:

import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.SslErrorHandler;
import android.webkit.WebSettings;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        WebView myWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview);
        WebSettings webSettings = myWebView.getSettings();
        webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        webSettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
        webSettings.setUseWideViewPort(true);
        webSettings.setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
        webSettings.setJavaScriptCanOpenWindowsAutomatically(true);
        myWebView.setWebViewClient(
                new SSLTolerentWebViewClient()
        );
        myWebView.loadUrl("https://www.mywebsite.ro");
    }
}
class SSLTolerentWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
    @Override
    public void onReceivedSslError(WebView view, SslErrorHandler handler, SslError error) {
        if (error.toString() == "piglet")
            handler.cancel();
        else
            handler.proceed(); // Ignore SSL certificate errors
    }
}

In debug I have:

D/OpenSSLLib: OpensslErr:Module:20(119:258); file:external/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c ;Line:714;Function:ssl23_get_server_hello

W/chromium: external/chromium/net/socket/ssl_client_socket_openssl.cc:171 [0209/105028:WARNING:ssl_client_socket_openssl.cc(171)] Unmapped error reason: 258

E/chromium: external/chromium/net/socket/ssl_client_socket_openssl.cc:792 [0209/105028:ERROR:ssl_client_socket_openssl.cc(792)] handshake failed; returned -1, SSL error code 1, net_error -2

D/chromium/tcp: LogConnectCompletion with error:-2

D/WebRequest: request error: -2

D/chromium: Unknown chromium error: -2

V/webview: setCertificate=null

V/webcore: setupViewport mRestoredScale=0.0 mViewScale=2.0 mTextWrapScale=2.0 data.mScale= 2.0

V/webcore: viewSizeChanged w=360; h=559; textwrapWidth=360; scale=2.0

D/skia: Flag is not 10

Answer 1

If you do not upload your app to the Play Store, you can just ignore SSL certificate errors:

@Override
public void onReceivedSslError(WebView view, SslErrorHandler handler, SslError error) {
    handler.proceed(); // Ignore SSL certificate errors
}

Answer 2

This problem is because the android versions under 4.4 does not support new versions TLS 1.1, TLS 1.2, which almost all sites use these versions.

Here is a list of android versions and support for TLS.