Github user pnowojski commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6355#discussion_r204324645 --- Diff: flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/io/network/netty/NettyClient.java --- @@ -175,7 +183,6 @@ ChannelFuture connect(final InetSocketAddress serverSocketAddress) { bootstrap.handler(new ChannelInitializer<SocketChannel>() { @Override public void initChannel(SocketChannel channel) throws Exception { - // SSL handler should be added first in the pipeline if (clientSSLContext != null) { --- End diff -- `checkState(!clientSSLContext.isEmpty())`? How can it ever be null?
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