write EPROTO: SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure when visiting https site

I’m on OS X and I’ve trusted my self signed cert in keychain. Chrome lets me into the site with no warnings or indication that I’m using a self-signed cert. However, when I try to cy.visit I get the following error in the cypress UI:

CypressError: cy.visit() failed trying to load:

https://local.avoxi.com/

We attempted to make an http request to this URL but the request failed without a response.

We received this error at the network level:

  > Error: write EPROTO 4777985472:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:../../vendor/node/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:802:

Common situations why this would fail:
  - you don't have internet access
  - you forgot to run / boot your web server
  - your web server isn't accessible
  - you have weird network configuration settings on your computer

The stack trace for this error is:

Error: write EPROTO 4777985472:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:../../vendor/node/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:802:

    at _errnoException (util.js:1024:11)
    at WriteWrap.afterWrite (net.js:867:14)


Because this error occurred during a 'before each' hook we are skipping the remaining tests in the current suite: 'Smoke Test'

The issue is new to 3.3.x. This test ran correctly in 3.2.x.

Here’s the debug log:

  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 31 from queue { '31': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '32': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +8s
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 34 after 85000 ms +1ms
  cypress:server:events sending ipc data { type: 'on:spec:changed', data: { id: 0.7674737586596712, data: 'integration/smokeTest_spec.js' } } +7s
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 34 +6s
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 34 from queue { '32': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '34': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +16ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 35 after 85000 ms +0ms
  cypress:server:socket watch test file 'integration/smokeTest_spec.js' +8s
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 35 +16ms
  cypress:server:server Getting remote state: { auth: undefined, props: null, origin: 'http://localhost:54628', strategy: 'file', visiting: undefined, domainName: 'localhost', fileServer: 'http://localhost:54629' } +4s
GET /__cypress/iframes/integration/smokeTest_spec.js 200 5.775 ms - 730
  cypress:server:controllers:spec request for { spec: 'cypress/support/index.js' } +8s
  cypress:server:preprocessor getFile /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/support/index.js +9s
  cypress:server:plugins plugin event registered? { event: 'file:preprocessor', isRegistered: true } +9s
  cypress:server:plugins execute plugin event 'file:preprocessor' with args: EventEmitter { domain: null, _events: { rerun: [Function], close: [Function] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, filePath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/support/index.js', shouldWatch: true, outputPath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/Library/Application Support/Cypress/cy/production/projects/sdp-integration-testing-bb0ca3d28a95e02fcfd94de45ff54783/bundles/cypress/support/index.js' } undefined undefined +0ms
  cypress:browserify get: /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/support/index.js +8s
  cypress:browserify already have bundle for: /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/support/index.js +0ms
  cypress:server:controllers:spec sending spec { filePath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/Library/Application Support/Cypress/cy/production/projects/sdp-integration-testing-bb0ca3d28a95e02fcfd94de45ff54783/bundles/cypress/support/index.js' } +2ms
  cypress:server:controllers:spec request for { spec: 'cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js' } +1ms
  cypress:server:preprocessor getFile /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js +2ms
  cypress:server:plugins plugin event registered? { event: 'file:preprocessor', isRegistered: true } +2ms
  cypress:server:plugins execute plugin event 'file:preprocessor' with args: EventEmitter { domain: null, _events: { rerun: [Function], close: [Function] }, _eventsCount: 2, _maxListeners: undefined, filePath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js', shouldWatch: true, outputPath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/Library/Application Support/Cypress/cy/production/projects/sdp-integration-testing-bb0ca3d28a95e02fcfd94de45ff54783/bundles/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js' } undefined undefined +0ms
  cypress:browserify get: /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js +3ms
  cypress:browserify already have bundle for: /Users/patrick.alessi/dev/go/src/bitbucket.org/AVOXI/sdp/sdp-integration-testing/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js +0ms
  cypress:server:controllers:spec sending spec { filePath: '/Users/patrick.alessi/Library/Application Support/Cypress/cy/production/projects/sdp-integration-testing-bb0ca3d28a95e02fcfd94de45ff54783/bundles/cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js' } +1ms
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/support/index.js-355 200 4.206 ms - -
GET /__cypress/tests?p=cypress/integration/smokeTest_spec.js-909 200 2.427 ms - -
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 35 from queue { '32': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '35': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +26ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 36 after 85000 ms +1ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 36 +27ms
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 36 from queue { '32': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '36': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +12ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 37 after 85000 ms +0ms
  cypress:server:socket automation:request get:cookies { domain: 'localhost' } +39ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 37 +12ms
  cypress:server:cookies getting:cookies { domain: 'localhost' } +8s
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 32 from queue { '32': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '37': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +3ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 38 after 85000 ms +0ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 38 +3ms
  cypress:server:cookies received get:cookies [] +3ms
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 38 from queue { '37': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '38': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +8ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 39 after 85000 ms +1ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 39 +9ms
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 37 from queue { '37': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '39': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +4ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 40 after 85000 ms +0ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 40 +4ms
  cypress:server:socket backend:request { eventName: 'resolve:url', args: [ 'https://local.avoxi.com/', { auth: null, failOnStatusCode: false, retryOnNetworkFailure: true, retryOnStatusCodeFailure: false, method: 'GET', body: null, headers: {}, timeout: 30000 } ] } +16ms
  cypress:server:server resolving visit { url: 'https://local.avoxi.com/', headers: { host: 'localhost:54628', connection: 'Upgrade', pragma: 'no-cache', 'cache-control': 'no-cache', 'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36', upgrade: 'websocket', origin: 'http://localhost:54628', 'sec-websocket-version': '13', 'accept-encoding': 'gzip, deflate, br', 'accept-language': 'en-US,en;q=0.9', 'sec-websocket-key': 'YFL2TN8ze8mLM11wCa6JNA==', 'sec-websocket-extensions': 'permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits' }, options: { auth: null, failOnStatusCode: false, retryOnNetworkFailure: true, retryOnStatusCodeFailure: false, method: 'GET', body: null, headers: {}, timeout: 30000 } } +52ms
  cypress:server:server Getting remote state: { auth: undefined, props: null, origin: 'http://localhost:54628', strategy: 'file', visiting: undefined, domainName: 'localhost', fileServer: 'http://localhost:54629' } +0ms
  cypress:server:server sending request with options { auth: null, failOnStatusCode: false, retryOnNetworkFailure: true, retryOnStatusCodeFailure: false, method: 'GET', body: null, headers: { accept: 'text/html,*/*' }, timeout: 30000, gzip: false, url: 'https://local.avoxi.com/', onBeforeReqInit: [Function: runPhase], followRedirect: [Function: followRedirect] } +0ms
  cypress:server:cookies getting:cookies { url: 'https://local.avoxi.com/' } +15ms
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 39 from queue { '39': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '40': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] } } +4ms
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 41 after 85000 ms +1ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 41 +5ms
  cypress:server:cookies received get:cookies [ { name: '_ga', value: 'GA1.2.1325448659.1559740807', path: '/', domain: '.avoxi.com', secure: false, httpOnly: false, hostOnly: false, expiry: 1622824507 }, { name: '_gid', value: 'GA1.2.1673151547.1559740807', path: '/', domain: '.avoxi.com', secure: false, httpOnly: false, hostOnly: false, expiry: 1559838907 }, { name: 'SnapABugRef', value: 'https%3A%2F%2Flocal.avoxi.com%2F%20', path: '/', domain: 'local.avoxi.com', secure: false, httpOnly: false, hostOnly: true, expiry: 1559759707 }, { name: 'SnapABugHistory', value: '2#', path: '/', domain: 'local.avoxi.com', secure: false, httpOnly: false, hostOnly: true, expiry: 1591288507 } ] +3ms
  cypress:server:request sending request as stream { auth: null, failOnStatusCode: false, retryOnNetworkFailure: true, retryOnStatusCodeFailure: false, method: 'GET', body: null, headers: { accept: 'text/html,*/*', 'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36' }, timeout: 30000, gzip: false, url: 'https://local.avoxi.com/', onBeforeReqInit: [Function: runPhase] } +4s
  cypress:network:agent addRequest called for https://local.avoxi.com/ +4s
  cypress:server:timers queuing timer id 42 after 30000 ms +4ms
  cypress:server:timers child received timer id 42 +5ms
  cypress:server:timers clearing timer id 42 from queue { '40': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '41': { args: [], ms: 85000, cb: [Function] }, '42': { args: [], ms: 30000, cb: [Function] } } +1ms
  cypress:server:request received an error making http request { auth: null, failOnStatusCode: false, retryOnNetworkFailure: true, retryOnStatusCodeFailure: false, method: 'GET', body: null, headers: { accept: 'text/html,*/*', 'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_5) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36' }, timeout: 30000, gzip: false, url: 'https://local.avoxi.com/', onBeforeReqInit: [Function: runPhase], requestId: 'request6', retryIntervals: [ 0, 1000, 2000, 2000 ], delaysRemaining: [ 0, 1000, 2000, 2000 ], err: { Error: write EPROTO 4474762688:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:../../vendor/node/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:802: at _errnoException (util.js:1024:11) at WriteWrap.afterWrite (net.js:867:14) code: 'EPROTO', errno: 'EPROTO', syscall: 'write' } } +6ms

_Originally posted by @PWAlessi in https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/771#issuecomment-499159715_

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If you have come here from Google because you’ve upgraded Cypress and have an Error:

 Error: write EPROTO 4777985472:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:../../vendor/node/deps/openssl/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c:802:

Then rollback to version 3.2.0 and lock it down until the Cypress team sort the problem out.