# Failed to execute \[webhook\] action, error: handshake alert: unrecognized\_name"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [June 17, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861 "2015-06-17T17:27:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![sandhya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sandhya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandhya)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/1 "2015-06-17T17:27:53Z")

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I am not able to post request to external source.i always gets error: handshake alert: unrecognized\_name"

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/2 "2015-06-18T05:35:22Z")

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Can you provide a bit more information?

What does your config look like?

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**Author:** ![sandhya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@sandhya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sandhya)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/3 "2015-06-18T05:52:04Z")

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I am using webhook in action like this.

"actions" : {  
"my\_webhook" : {  
"webhook" : {  
"scheme":"https",   
"method" : "get",  
"host" : "host",  
"path": "uripath",  
"port":443,  
"headers":{  
"header1":"value1"  
}

```
}

```

}  
}

Exception :  
"id": "my\_webhook",  
"webhook": {  
"success": false,  
"reason": "failed to execute [webhook] action [ount\_watch\_0-2015-06-17T14:37:52.408Z/my\_webhook]. error: handshake alert: unrecognized\_name"

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/4 "2015-06-18T06:37:54Z")

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It could be an SSL mismatch error.  
Does the hostname you are connecting to have that as a valid entry in the SSL certificate?

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**Author:** ![uboness](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/96bed5/32.png) [@uboness](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/uboness)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2015, 11:58am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/5 "2015-06-18T11:58:39Z")

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Hi,

Java 7 is quite strict with SNI. You can also try running elasticsearch with the following system argument:

```
-Djsse.enableSNIExtension=false
```

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/failed-to-execute-webhook-action-error-handshake-alert-unrecognized-name/23861/6 "2017-07-06T13:49:30Z")

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