I am experiencing an issue almost exactly the same as that posted a couple of years ago here:

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/ndseforum.nsf/xpTopicThread.xsp?documentId=C1360BAA902999AC85258036006B4F94

 

I have a Java agent that connects to a payment gateway to validate a CC transaction.

Everything seems to work fine when the Java logic is run on my Notes client (9.0.1FP10IF3).

 

I am now migrating the logic to a managed bean on my Domino server (9.0.1FP6).

Whenever the connection is made through the bean, I observe the following error on the server console...

 

HTTP JVM: javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure

 

I am certain it's because the payment gateway with which I am attempting to communicate has recently upgraded to enforce mandatory TLS 1.2 communications.

However, I'm not sure how to enforce those communications on the Domino server side?

 

I have set the recommended NOTES.INI variables...

DISABLE_SSLV3=1

SSL_DISABLE_TLS_10=1

... and set the 'SSLCipherSpec', but nothing is working.

 

Here is an excerpt from the logic I'm using to test everything out.

The line in red is what triggers the error...

 

URL url = new URL("https://host/endpoint");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-type", "text/xml");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-length", Integer.toString(postContent.length()));
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes(postContent);
out.flush();
out.close();
connection.disconnect();

 

Any advice/assistance would be most appreciated!