# Error in a http request (SOLVED)

**URL:** <https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 15, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330 "2019-08-15T18:53:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Vik](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/vik/32/18908_2.png) [@Vik](https://forum.defold.com/u/Vik)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/1 "2019-08-15T18:53:30Z")

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I have this error

WARNING:DLIB: SSL handshake failed (-1)  
ERROR:SCRIPT: HTTP request to ‘[https://uinames.com/api/](https://uinames.com/api/)’ failed (http result: -1 socket result: -1000)

> local function http\_result(self, \_, response)  
> pprint(response.status)  
> pprint(response.response)  
> pprint(response.headers)  
> end
> 
> local function request(self)  
> http.request(“[https://uinames.com/api/](https://uinames.com/api/)”, “GET”, http\_result)  
> end

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**Author:** ![Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/mathias_westerdahl/32/228_2.png) [@Mathias\_Westerdahl](https://forum.defold.com/u/Mathias_Westerdahl)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 6:34am UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/2 "2019-08-16T06:34:27Z")

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What type of handshake does the site use?  
We have listed the supported ones in the documentation for [http.request()](https://www.defold.com/ref/http/#http.request:url-method-callback--headers---post_data---options-)

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**Author:** ![Vik](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/vik/32/18908_2.png) [@Vik](https://forum.defold.com/u/Vik)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/3 "2019-08-16T15:57:10Z")

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> [@Mathias\_Westerdahl](#):
>
> handshake

I dont know . Cant defold connect to all web services?

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**Author:** ![britzl](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/britzl/32/23_2.png) [@britzl](https://forum.defold.com/u/britzl)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/4 "2019-08-16T17:53:39Z")

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> [@Vik](#):
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> Cant defold connect to all web services?

The current solution doesn’t support all SSL handshake ciphers. This is a limitation that hasn’t been a problem in the past, but it seems like more and more cloud hosted services have upgraded to ciphers that aren’t supported by the version of axTLS that we are using. We will discuss this on Monday and hopefully be able to provide a solution in the next release.

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**Author:** ![Vik](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/vik/32/18908_2.png) [@Vik](https://forum.defold.com/u/Vik)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2019, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/5 "2019-08-16T17:54:31Z")

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thanks

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**Author:** ![AGulev](https://forum-defold.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.defold.com/agulev/32/4541_2.png) [@AGulev](https://forum.defold.com/u/AGulev)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.defold.com/t/error-in-a-http-request-solved/60330/6 "2019-09-16T12:43:48Z")

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We replaced the old SSL library with the new one mbedTLS.  
It should work fine starting [1.2.162](https://forum.defold.com/t/defold-1-2-162-has-been-released/62959)