Error messagCannot connect Secure connection needed enable ssl 3.0 and slt

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Error message "We cannot complete your itunes request. A secure internet connection cannot be determined. Be sure to enable ssl 3.0 or slt 1.0 in the internet options control panel. I did NOTHING different to my computer. One day I could purchase songs from itunes and 4 days later I couldn't. I've checked all things that discussion boards and technical support have suggested and nothing works. Enabled ssl 3.0 and slt 1.0, turned off firewall, authorized my computer, blah, blah...
Not only can't I purchase songs but when I plug in my ipod to shuffle or change playlists, the error messages tell me I will lose many of my songs if I don't authorize my account. Then, back to the problem of it looping me through error messages.

Answer 1

You don't really need to do anything, as the handshake will fall back to SSLv3 if either end can't speak TLS.
However if you want to enforce SSLv3 and nothing else (e.g. SSLv2) you could remove TLSv1 from the enabledProtocols of the SSLSocket (or SSLServerSocket if you're writing a server). You should also remove SSLv2 at the same time IMHO as it is insecure.
Alternatively, if you're using SSLContexts, do SSLContext.getInstance("SSLv3") and get your SSLSocketFactory from the result; see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/guide/security/jsse/JSSERefGuide.html#AppA.
EJP