How to create HTTPS or secure Socket objects in JDK 1.4?

Question

I would like to see sample working code that shows creation
of Sockets objects that work with HTTPS using JDK 1.4. I am doing
a POST operation (form submission) on HTTPS URL. I must use Socket
objects and cannot use URLConnection (I know URLConnection solves the problem automatically in JDK 1.4).
Also sample code for POST operation would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I wrote this a little while ago to test out Secure Sockets in 1.4. I assume you are doing the client since you are trying talk to a website or something like that, anyway this test class is tested and works, but you will have to clean it up.
Pup
import java.io.*;
import java.security.*;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
public class HelloClientSSL {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            int port = 8005;
            int tempport =0;
            if(args.length > 1) {
                try {
                    tempport = Integer.parseInt(args[1]);
                    port = tempport;
                catch (Exception e) {
                    System.out.println("Sorry this is not a valid number " + args[1]);
                    System.out.println("Using Default port 8005");
            Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());           
            SSLSocketFactory sslFact = (SSLSocketFactory)SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
            SSLSocket s = (SSLSocket)sslFact.createSocket(args.length == 0 ? "127.0.0.1" : args[0], port);
            s.setEnabledCipherSuites(s.getSupportedCipherSuites());
            java.net.Socket n = (java.net.Socket) s;
            java.io.ObjectOutputStream OOS = new java.io.ObjectOutputStream(n.getOutputStream());
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(n.getInputStream()));
            String response = "";
            String temp = "This is reall cool and stuff\n";
            OOS.writeObject(temp);
            OOS.writeObject("Hello\n");
            while((response =in.readLine()) != null){
                System.out.println("Socket message: " + response);
            in.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Exception" + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
}