Opening a secure socket in Creator app

Question

Hi All,
I have this app in Creator which tries to make connection with a server over HTTPS. When I run this java prgram from Eclipse (standalone java program), its able to make connection to the server. But when I try and run the app and make this call to another server from the app, it gives me following error --
javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: No trusted certificate found
I am trying to make the connection using sockets -
String TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER = "www.server123.com";
int TARGET_HTTPS_PORT = 443;
SSLSocketFactory factory = new SSLSocketFactoryImpl();
Socket socket = factory.createSocket(TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER, TARGET_HTTPS_PORT);
The difference between the program that I run thru Eclipse and thru Creator is Eclipse uses JDK 1.4.2 and Creator uses 1.5.0. I changed the Project settings from Creator to make use of JDK 1.4.2 but that didnt help. The error persisted.
When I ran the app in debug mode, I could see the socket info as 5397f6[Unknown 0x0:0x0: Socket[addr=www.server123.com/123.123.123.123,port=443,localport=52994]] while the same socket when created in Eclipse (standalone mode using JDK 1.4.2 showed the socket as f01771[SSL_RSA_EXPORT_WITH_RC4_40_MD5: Socket[addr=www.server123.com/123.123.123.123,port=443,localport=53032]]. It is obvious the problem is in opening the socket. The first one shows ciphers as Unknown while the second one uses RC4_40_MD5.
Is it a certs issue? I checked that both 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 installations have same size of cacerts.
Thanks,
Ashish

Answer 1

I'm not an expert in all that certificate stuff!
But the Creator applications run inside the Sun Application Server and that has it's own cacerts.jks per domain. Maybe that's the reason why it can't find the trusted certificate??
Look at <Creator_home>/SunAppServer8/domains/creator/config/cacerts.jks
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
-- Marco