Intermittent SSL handshake failure issue.

[Solomon Thumma]

 
  We are seeing the below intermittent SSL handshake failure error while trying 
to read data from an external site. Primarily we see this error when the other 
site is having some response issues.
   
  We ever this error occurs the http call hangs for couple of minutes. The 5 
seconds read time out doesn't seems to work.
   
  We are using httpclient3.0 and Web sphere 5.0.2.10 and IBMJSSE (1.0.3) for 
SSL communication. 
   
  Could any one provide me some insight into this issue?
   
  -Solomon
   
  Exception Trace.
  java.lang.RuntimeException: java.net.SocketException: SSL handshake failure
 at com.ibm.sslite.m.c(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.sslite.m.f(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.sslite.m.a(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.sslite.n.<init>(Unknown Source)(Inlined Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.sslite.be.a(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.sslite.be.<init>(Unknown Source)(Inlined Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.jsse.bh.a(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.jsse.b.a(Unknown Source)(Inlined Compiled Code)
 at com.ibm.jsse.b.write(Unknown Source)(Compiled Code)
 at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java(Inlined 
Compiled Code))
 at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java(Compiled Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.EntityEnclosingMethod.writeRequestBody(EntityEnclosingMethod.java(Compiled
 Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.writeRequest(HttpMethodBase.java(Compiled
 Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java(Compiled
 Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java(Compiled
 Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java(Compiled
 Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java(Compiled 
Code))
 at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java(Inlined 
Compiled Code))
  
 

                
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