"Bad handshake" error with MySQL

Question

Hello,
I'm having problems when I try to connect to DB using MySQL 4.1.1alpha.
I have Conector/J 3.1 and Connector/ODBC 3.51.
The exceptions occur when I try to connect with the sentence:
conection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql?user=root");
the exception thrown is:
Communication link failure: Bad handshake
I can connect from mysql and from mysql Control Center but not from JAVA.
Does Anyone know my problem?
Greetings
Mariano

Answer 1

Did you try this?
conection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306 /mysql?user=root&password=");
if still doesn't work, recompile the driver and try again. It happened to me once when I downloaded their binary [instead of recompiling their src myself].
hope this helps