Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

Signals that the SSL handshake failed for some reason other than failed authentication (see SSLPeerUnverifiedException ). For example, it may be thrown because the client and server count not agree on a mutually -acceptable cipher suite. When this exception is thrown, the SSLSocket object is no longer usable.

public class SSLHandshakeException extends SSLException { // Public Constructors public SSLHandshakeException (String reason ); }