Problems getting a site's https certificates - ssl

Question

I have an Android app that has some trouble with a site's certificate when connecting via https. As I'm experiencing trouble even when using a custom keystore with the certificates ("No peer certificate") I'm trying to get more information about the connection, handshake and certificates actually given by the server.
The version of openssl is follows:
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
When I just try to get info about the certificates I get this response:
$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect [hostname]:443 </dev/null
CONNECTED(00000003)
3069977808:error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s23_clnt.c:749:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 308 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
---
This is how Chrome describes the connection (sorry for the Norwegian text, but you get an idea of the connection and encryption type:
Based on the info from Chrome I've tried different commands to get the certificates, but they all seem to fail. My top candidate was this one:
$ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect [hostname]:443 -tls1_2 -cipher RC4-MD5
CONNECTED(00000003)
3069396176:error:14094410:SSL routines:SSL3_READ_BYTES:sslv3 alert handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:1258:SSL alert number 40
3069396176:error:1409E0E5:SSL routines:SSL3_WRITE_BYTES:ssl handshake failure:s3_pkt.c:596:
---
no peer certificate available
---
No client certificate CA names sent
---
SSL handshake has read 7 bytes and written 0 bytes
---
New, (NONE), Cipher is (NONE)
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
SSL-Session:
Protocol : TLSv1.2
Cipher : 0000
Session-ID:
Session-ID-ctx:
Master-Key:
Key-Arg : None
PSK identity: None
PSK identity hint: None
SRP username: None
Start Time: 1414399499
Timeout : 7200 (sec)
Verify return code: 0 (ok)
---
Anyone got any hints based on the info given?

Answer 1

This might be an SNI issue, where the server has no default certificate defined for non-SNI clients. Android included a version of Apaches httpclient which is known to not support SNI and your openssl s_client command also does not use SNI.
Please try openssl s_client -servername hostname -connect ... to use SNI and see if this helps.