HTTPURLConnection doesn’t work in the Portal

Question

Hi,
We try to develop an web service on the SAP Portal 7.0 SP11, and we have the following behavior.
If we implement the following code through java console this works fine.
URL url = new URL("https://server/info?A030=M005&A001=2=0&C001=0");
System.out.println("Connecting to Host : [" + url.getHost() + "]");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore", "2796.p12");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword", "PASSWORD");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStoreType", "pkcs12");
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.setDoOutput(false); // true for POST, false for GET
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.setUseCaches(false);
connection.setAllowUserInteraction(true);
String aLine = null;
InputStreamReader inReader = new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream());
BufferedReader aReader = new BufferedReader(inReader);
while ((aLine = aReader.readLine()) != null)
     System.err.println(aLine);
aReader.close();
And, if we goes to an AbstractPortalComponent we have problems to connect to an https web site.
The application returns this errors
org.w3c.www.protocol.http.HttpException: Unable to contact target server
     iaik.security.ssl.SSLException: Peer sent alert: Alert Fatal: handshake failure#
     at iaik.security.ssl.r.f(Unknown Source)#
Any ideas,
Jorge Neves

Answer 1

Hi Jorge,
the portal offers you the com.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice.
no javadoc, but you find it here...
usrsap[instance]JC[sysNr]j2eeclusterserver0appssap.comirjservlet_jspirjrootWEB-INFportalportalappscom.sap.portal.ivs.httpservice
maybe you try this way to create your connection.
Greetings Jens