SSL Handshake Failed - Java 1.8

Question

Just letting folks know about an issue I had that many seemed to have had after upgrading to Java 1.8. Not all of the solutions are the same hence posting how I resolved th

Answer 1

Thanks alton for sharing such a life saver information. Only one thing I'd like to change since

openssl s_client -host yourproblemhost.com -port 443
returned ->
Protocol  : TLSv1.2
Cipher    : 0000
openssl s_client -connect X.X.X.X:993  -prexit -tls1
returned -> the expected response as
Protocol  : TLSv1
Cipher    : RC4-MD5