OkHTTP connection to PayPal gives an SSLHandshakeException

I’m using Java 1.8 and

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp</groupId>
        <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
        <version>2.7.5</version>
    </dependency>

To connect to Paypal via this code…

    String httpUrl = "https://api.sandbox.paypal.com/retail/merchant/v1/invoices/";
    String jsonContent = "{'test':'test'}";

    RequestBody requestBody = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json; charset=utf-8"), jsonContent);
    Request request =  new Request.Builder().url(httpUrl).post(requestBody).build();
    Response response = new OkHttpClient().newCall(request).execute();

    System.out.println(response.body());

I get the error response of…

main, READ: TLSv1 Alert, length = 2 main, RECV TLSv1 ALERT: fatal, handshake_failure main, called closeSocket() main, handling exception: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure main, called close() main, called closeInternal(true) Exception in thread “main” javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192) at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1979) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1086) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1332) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1359) at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1343) at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.io.RealConnection.connectTls(RealConnection.java:192)

Can anyone help me out please.

[hharsunen]

try changing ConnectionSpec spec = new ConnectionSpec.Builder(ConnectionSpec.COMPATIBLE_TLS) to ConnectionSpec spec = new ConnectionSpec.Builder(ConnectionSpec.MODERN_TLS)

[jeffreyporter]

(ConnectionSpec.MODERN_TLS) This works! THANK YOU!