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Geezus_42today at 12:28 PM2 repliesview on HN

As a sysadmin, not developer, I hate Java almost as much as Windows. The error messages Java apps produce are like coded messages that you have to decipher.

I.E. Instead of "<DOMAIN> TLS Handshake failed" it will be something like "ERROR: PKIX failed". So now I have to figure out that PKIX is referring to PKI and it would make too much sense to provide the domain that failed. Instead I have to play the guessing game.


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deepsuntoday at 1:05 PM

I hate when tools only produce generic "TLS Handshake failed" instead of saying why exactly it failed, where is the problem.

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well_ackshuallytoday at 2:31 PM

So your issue isn't with Java, just with shit error messages and devs clearing the exception stack.