How could I solve - Failed to download mysql connector .jar… Received fatal alert: protocol_version?

Question

I am trying to download the missing driver files on phpStorm for mySQL. I keep getting this error:

Failed to download 'https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/mysql/mysql-connector-java/5.1.47/mysql-connector-java-5.1.47.jar': Received fatal alert: protocol_version

I haven't found any solutions to this problem online. Would really appreciate if someone could let me know how I could achieve this.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I recommend taking a look in IDE log files to see if they may have additional details as to why the download is failing.

Use Java 8 and also It needs to enable TLS 1.2 protocol with Java property in the command line.

mvn -Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1.2 install

Additionally, you can download the file and install them manually.

I couldn't find any official JetBrains MySQL driver repo page, but I found some old URLs that are official and work,

http://download.jetbrains.com/idea/jdbc-drivers/mysql-connector-java-5.1.45-bin.jar http://download.jetbrains.com/idea/jdbc-drivers/mysql-connector-java-5.1.46-bin.jar

And also you can get all the old to latest MySQL Connectors versions from the Maven Repository .

PS: To know how to add an external MySQL Connector library to PhpStorm .