On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Mark Mielke <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not to recommend the use of SSLv3 by any means, but just to point out that
> there is a single case (of many) where I was forced to make a software
> change to migrate to SSLv3, and if making a software change is not feasible
> for some business reason, this would make it necessary to retain Jetty
> support for SSLv3 for such a person.
>
> My single case was... I hope I get this right...
>
> Use of Jetty 9.2.x latest as a server, to a Java 6 client on Solaris 8.
> Java 7 is not available for Solaris 8. Solaris 8 is end-of-life, but the
> company I work for still has support contracts that stipulate that that the
> product will still still have support under Solaris 8. Java 6 on Solaris
> defaults to the SSLv3 Hello, and when I upgraded to Jetty 9.2.x latest from
> something like Jetty 9.2.1, everything worked fine except for the loadbuild
> machines support Solaris 8. Jetty 9 is being used as part of a web services
> frame work that is integrated with the loadbuild process.
>
> First, I backed out the server upgrade to a Jetty version that didn't
> block SSLv3. This bought breathing room. Then, I researched and figure this
> all out. I updated the client to a newer version of Apache HttpClient that
> *also* blocked SSLv3, which caused the client to use TLSv1 Hello by
> default, which then allowed me to update the server to latest Jetty 9.2.x.
>


Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like the Java folks just fixed this
issue in Java 7u80:

http://bugs.java.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8052406

"JDK-8052406 : SSLv2Hello protocol may be filtered out unexpectedly"

My issue might have been SSLv2Hello... I didn't dig into *exactly* what the
sequence was. I just understood it was something earlier than TLS 1.0...

A bit late unfortunately... :-)

-- 
Mark Mielke <[email protected]>
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