# Help with Handshake failure!!!!

**URL:** <https://community.gatling.io/t/help-with-handshake-failure/4003>\
**Category:** Gatling (Open-Source)\
**Created:** [October 18, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/help-with-handshake-failure/4003 "2017-10-18T18:27:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senen\_Alonso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Senen\_Alonso](https://community.gatling.io/u/Senen_Alonso)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://community.gatling.io/t/help-with-handshake-failure/4003/1 "2017-10-18T18:27:33Z")

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Hi everyone!!

I’m new with Gatling and after read and follow the quickstart guide, I’m trying to record one of our webapp under https, but I receive an exception like this:

20:11:30.819 [ERROR] i.g.r.h.h.u.HttpsUserHandler - Handshake failure with xxxx.xxxx.es/xx.xxx.xxx.xxx:443  
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: handshake\_failure

at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.recvAlert(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap(Unknown Source)  
at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(Unknown Source)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler$SslEngineType$3.unwrap(SslHandler.java:272)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1175)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1087)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1122)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:491)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:430)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:267)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:356)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:342)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:335)  
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1302)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:356)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:342)  
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:919)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:131)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:646)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:581)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:498)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:460)  
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:131)  
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultThreadFactory$DefaultRunnableDecorator.run(DefaultThreadFactory.java:138)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)  
20:11:30.823 [WARN] i.n.c.DefaultChannelPipeline - An exceptionCaught() event was fired, and it reached at the tail of the pipeline. It usually means the last handler in the pipeline did not handle the exception.  
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: handshake\_failure  
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.fatal(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.recvAlert(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.readNetRecord(Unknown Source)  
at sun.security.ssl.SSLEngineImpl.unwrap(Unknown Source)  
at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(Unknown Source)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler$SslEngineType$3.unwrap(SslHandler.java:272)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.unwrap(SslHandler.java:1175)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decodeJdkCompatible(SslHandler.java:1087)  
at io.netty.handler.ssl.SslHandler.decode(SslHandler.java:1122)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.decodeRemovalReentryProtection(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:491)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:430)  
… 16 common frames omitted  
Wrapped by: io.netty.handler.codec.DecoderException: javax.net.ssl.SSLException:  
Received fatal alert: handshake\_failure  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.callDecode(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:461)  
at io.netty.handler.codec.ByteToMessageDecoder.channelRead(ByteToMessageDecoder.java:267)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:356)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:342)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.fireChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:335)  
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline$HeadContext.channelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:1302)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:356)  
at io.netty.channel.AbstractChannelHandlerContext.invokeChannelRead(AbstractChannelHandlerContext.java:342)  
at io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPipeline.fireChannelRead(DefaultChannelPipeline.java:919)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioByteChannel$NioByteUnsafe.read(AbstractNioByteChannel.java:131)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKey(NioEventLoop.java:646)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeysOptimized(NioEventLoop.java:581)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.processSelectedKeys(NioEventLoop.java:498)  
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:460)  
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:131)  
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultThreadFactory$DefaultRunnableDecorator.run(DefaultThreadFactory.java:138)  
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Could anyone help me?

Thanks in advance!!