Android - version 8 only (2.2 froyo) - ssl handshake failed

Question

The code below works with HTTP (API version 7 and 8) and HTTPS (API version 7). For HTTPS (API version 8) I get the error message "java.io.IOException: SSL connection establishment error: error in SSL library, usually protocol error"

Any idea why only on version 8?

The code...

            HttpURLConnection connection = null;
            BufferedReader brd  = null;
            String line = "" ;
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();


            try {
                //Set up the initial connection
                //connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("http://MYSERVER.com").openConnection(); //Works
                connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("https://MYSERVER.com").openConnection(); //error
                connection.connect();

                    brd  = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
                    sb = new StringBuilder();
                    while ((line = brd.readLine()) != null)
                        sb.append(line);

                                  System.out.println(sb.toString());
       } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }  finally{
                //close the connection, set all objects to null
                connection.disconnect();
                brd = null;
                sb = null;
                connection = null;
            }

Full stack of errors

WARN/System.err(267): java.io.IOException: SSL: SSL, WARN/System.err(267): : 140773F2: SSL-: SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO: sslv3 (/openssl/ssl/s23_clnt.c: 599 0xaf076ad8: 0x00000000) org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.OpenSSLSocketImpl.nativeconnect( ) at org.apache.harmony.xnet.provider.jsse.OpenSSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(OpenSSLSocketImpl.java:316) org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.http.HttpConnection.getSecureSocket(HttpConnection.java:168) org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl $HttpsEngine.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:399) org.apache.harmony.luni.internal.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.connect(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:147)

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