unrecognised SSL handshake

[Jayakumar]

I keep getting the error below, I am trying to access a secure
website( https://www.verisign.com). I need to go through a proxy( need
to authenticate), I think I able to go through the proxy but I keep
getting the handshake error.
Can someone who has done this suggest what I might be doing wrong, or
what I might need to do. I am using JSSE.
The number printed is the seesion created time.
HTTP/1.0 200 Connection established

tunnel handshake ok

Socket[addr=relay.xyz.com/xxx.xx.xx.70,port=80,localport=2315]

sslsocket created ok

1003709424907

true

start handshake

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL handshake.

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.InputRecord.read([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.a([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.a([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])

at java.io.OutputStream.write(OutputStream.java:61)

at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake([DashoPro-V1.2-120198])

at SSLSocketClientWithTunneling.doIt(SSLSocketClientWithTunneling.java:135)

at SSLSocketClientWithTunneling.main(SSLSocketClientWithTunneling.java:40)