HTTPS hostname wrong: should be myhostname

Question

WHen I connect from my SOAP client to a SOAP server via HTTP, everything works fine. But when I connect via HTTPS, I get an exception
"HTTPS hostname wrong: should be <myhostname>"
I browsed the forums for this and got the workaround
        HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
            public boolean verify(String urlHostName, SSLSession session) {
                return true;
            public boolean verify(String urlHostName, String certHostname) {
                return true;
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
        SOAPConnectionFactory scf =  SOAPConnectionFactory.newInstance();
        connection = scf.createConnection(); //point-to-point connectionbut that doesn't work. Perhaps this workaround only works for url/socket connections and not for SOAP connections. Or is there a similar workaround for SOAP connections?

Answer 1

Well, a
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());in addition helped. But I wonder how this host name check is done. I added a System.out with the values of urlHostName and session.getPeerHost() and after I changed my domain name to the IP address this error still occured without this workaround. So even though the urlHostName equals exactly the session.getPeerHost() string, the exception is still thrown.