Receiving SSLHandshakeException: handshake_failure despite my client ignoring all certs

Question

I have a Java program that connects to a webserver using SSL/TLS, and sends various HTTP requests over that connection. The server is localhost and is using a self-signed ce

Answer 1

You are seeing this error most probably because the keystore that your JBoss 6 had access to is not accessible to your JBoss 7 instance.

What I would recommend is the following.

Your self-signed server certificate must be imported into a truststore

keytool -import -alias gridserver -file server.crt -storepass $YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE -keystore server.keystore

Add the following properties to your run.conf

-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStoreType=pkcs12
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStoreType=jks
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=clientcertificate.p12
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=server.keystore
-Djavax.net.debug=ssl # very verbose debug. Turn this off after everything looks good.
-Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=$YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=$YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE