java - javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake during web service communicaiton

Question

I am getting javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake exception when I try to do HTTPS Post of a web service through internet. But same code works for other internet hosted web services. I tried many things, nothing is helping me. I posted my sample code here. Can anyone please help me to resolve this problem?

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    String xmlServerURL = "https://example.com/soap/WsRouter";
    URL urlXMLServer = new URL(xmlServerURL);
    // URLConnection supports HTTPS protocol only with JDK 1.4+ 
    Proxy proxy = new Proxy(Proxy.Type.HTTP, new InetSocketAddress(
            "xxxx.example.com", 8083));
    HttpURLConnection httpsURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) urlXMLServer
            .openConnection(proxy);
    httpsURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml; charset=utf-8");
    //httpsURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
    httpsURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
    httpsURLConnection.setConnectTimeout(300000);
    //httpsURLConnection.setIgnoreProxy(false);
    httpsURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST"); 
    //httpsURLConnection.setHostnameVerifier(DO_NOT_VERIFY); 
    // send request
    PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(
            httpsURLConnection.getOutputStream());
    StringBuffer requestXML = new StringBuffer();
    requestXML.append(getProcessWorkOrderSOAPXML());   
    // get list of user     
    out.println(requestXML.toString()); 
    out.close();
    out.flush();
    System.out.println("XML Request POSTed to " + xmlServerURL + "
");
    System.out.println(requestXML.toString() + "
"); 
    //Thread.sleep(60000);  
    // read response

    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader( 
            httpsURLConnection.getInputStream()));
    String line;
    String respXML = "";
    while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
        respXML += line;
    }
    in.close();

    // output response
    respXML = URLDecoder.decode(respXML, "UTF-8"); 
    System.out.println("
XML Response
");
    System.out.println(respXML);
}

Full stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Remote host closed connection during handshake
       at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:946)
       at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1312)
       at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1339)
       at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1323)
       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.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1091)
       at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:250)
       at com.labcorp.efone.vendor.TestATTConnectivity.main(TestATTConnectivity.java:43)
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:927)
       ... 8 more

Actually, there are two scenarios here. When I work as a standalone Java program I am getting the above exception. But when I try to execute in weblogic application server, I am getting the below exception: Any clue what could be the reason?

java.io.IOException: Connection closed, EOF detected
    at weblogic.socket.JSSEFilterImpl.handleUnwrapResults(JSSEFilterImpl.java:637)
    at weblogic.socket.JSSEFilterImpl.unwrapAndHandleResults(JSSEFilterImpl.java:515)
    at weblogic.socket.JSSEFilterImpl.doHandshake(JSSEFilterImpl.java:96)
    at weblogic.socket.JSSEFilterImpl.doHandshake(JSSEFilterImpl.java:75)
    at weblogic.socket.JSSEFilterImpl.write(JSSEFilterImpl.java:448)
    at weblogic.socket.JSSESocket$JSSEOutputStream.write(JSSESocket.java:93)
    at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:82)
    at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:140)
    at java.io.FilterOutputStream.flush(FilterOutputStream.java:140)
    at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.writeRequests(HttpURLConnection.java:192)
    at weblogic.net.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:433)
    at weblogic.net.http.SOAPHttpsURLConnection.getInputStream(SOAPHttpsURLConnection.java:37)
    at com.labcorp.efone.service.impl.WorkOrderServiceImpl.processATTWorkOrder(ATTWorkOrderServiceImpl.java:86)
    at com.labcorp.efone.bds.WorkOrderBusinessDelegateImpl.processATTWorkOrder(WorkOrderBusinessDelegateImpl.java:59)
    at com.labcorp.efone.actions.ATTWorkOrderAction.efonePerformForward(ATTWorkOrderAction.java:41)
    at com.labcorp.efone.actions.EfoneAction.efonePerformActionForward(EfoneAction.java:149)
    at com.labcorp.efone.actions.EfoneAction.execute(EfoneAction.java:225)
    at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:484)
    at org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:274)
    at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1482)
    at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doPost(ActionServlet.java:525)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:751)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:844)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:280)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:254)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:136)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.execute(ServletStubImpl.java:341)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:25)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
    at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:330)
    at com.labcorp.efone.security.EfoneAuthenticationFilter.doFilter(EfoneAuthenticationFilter.java:115)
    at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
    at org.springframework.security.web.context.SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextPersistenceFilter.java:87)
    at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:342)
    at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilterInternal(FilterChainProxy.java:192)
    at org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:160)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.invokeDelegate(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:346)
    at org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy.doFilter(DelegatingFilterProxy.java:259)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.java:79)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.wrapRun(WebAppServletContext.java:3367)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationAction.run(WebAppServletContext.java:3333)
    at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)
    at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)
    at weblogic.servlet.provider.WlsSubjectHandle.run(WlsSubjectHandle.java:57)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.doSecuredExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2220)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.securedExecute(WebAppServletContext.java:2146)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.execute(WebAppServletContext.java:2124)
    at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.run(ServletRequestImpl.java:1564)
    at weblogic.servlet.provider.ContainerSupportProviderImpl$WlsRequestExecutor.run(ContainerSupportProviderImpl.java:254)
    at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:295)
    at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:254)
Exception: java.io.IOException: Connection closed, EOF detected

Answer 1

Java 7 defaults to TLS 1.0, which can cause this error when that protocol is not accepted. I ran into this problem with a Tomcat application and a server that would not accept TLS 1.0 connections any longer. I added

-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2

to the Java options and that fixed it. (Tomcat was running Java 7.)