GitHub user rajinisivaram opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3918
KAFKA-5920: Handle SSL handshake failures as authentication exceptions You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rajinisivaram/kafka KAFKA-5920-SSL-handshake-failure Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3918.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3918 ---- commit baada6c9c7ddf85ec00bd5bf23b464ed79571283 Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2017-09-18T22:06:48Z KAFKA-5920: Handle SSL handshake failures as authentication exceptions ---- ---