Problems with JSSE under Weblogic 5.1 sp9

Question

I have a java application which uses JSSE to communicate with a WebMethods server
and it works great. However, when I take the same code block and run it under
Weblogic 5.1 sp11, I receive a bad certificate error. After spending a lot of
time reading through various postings, I fixed the problem where Weblogic was
intercepting HTTPsURLConnection, but still have the bad_certificate error.
My setup is as follows:
- Keys stored using keytool in keystores outside of Weblogic
- Service pack 9 is installed (also tested SP10)
- Code runs fine as an isolated java application, but will not run when called
from within weblogic.
- JDK1.3.1_02
- Modified the weblogic.policy file with the following line:"permission java.net.NetPermission
"specifyStreamHandler";"
Source Code:
System.getProperties().put("java.protocol.handler.pkgs",
"com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
System.out.println("\n\nHandler = "+System.getProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs"));
URL server = new URL(null, "https://B2bserver.quadrem.com:4443/invoke/wm.tn/receive",
new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol.https.Handler());
System.out.println("Connecting to : "+server.toExternalForm());
char[] password = "weblogic".toCharArray();
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
KeyManagerFactory keyManagerFactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");
KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
keystore.load(new FileInputStream("x:/jpkeystore"), password);
keyManagerFactory.init(keystore, password);
context.init(keyManagerFactory.getKeyManagers(), null, null);
HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)server.openConnection();
conn.setDoInput( true );
conn.setDoOutput( true );
conn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
conn.setUseCaches( false );
conn.setDefaultUseCaches ( false );
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml");
conn.setRequestProperty("Host", remoteHost);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "" + (XML_HEADER.length()+doc.length()));
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream (conn.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes(XML_HEADER);
out.write(doc.getBytes());
out.flush();
out.close();
All help will be appreciated.
thanks
Mark Johnson
781-993-9212 x375
[email protected]

Answer 1

Mark,
Can you post the complete exceptionand stack trace here ?
Mark Johnson wrote:
I have a java application which uses JSSE to communicate with a WebMethods server
and it works great. However, when I take the same code block and run it under
Weblogic 5.1 sp11, I receive a bad certificate error. After spending a lot of
time reading through various postings, I fixed the problem where Weblogic was
intercepting HTTPsURLConnection, but still have the bad_certificate error.
My setup is as follows:
- Keys stored using keytool in keystores outside of Weblogic
- Service pack 9 is installed (also tested SP10)
- Code runs fine as an isolated java application, but will not run when called
from within weblogic.
- JDK1.3.1_02
- Modified the weblogic.policy file with the following line:"permission java.net.NetPermission
"specifyStreamHandler";"
Source Code:
System.getProperties().put("java.protocol.handler.pkgs",
"com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
System.out.println("\n\nHandler = "+System.getProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs"));
URL server = new URL(null, "https://B2bserver.quadrem.com:4443/invoke/wm.tn/receive",
new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol.https.Handler());
System.out.println("Connecting to : "+server.toExternalForm());
char[] password = "weblogic".toCharArray();
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
KeyManagerFactory keyManagerFactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");
KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance("JKS");
keystore.load(new FileInputStream("x:/jpkeystore"), password);
keyManagerFactory.init(keystore, password);
context.init(keyManagerFactory.getKeyManagers(), null, null);
HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection)server.openConnection();
conn.setDoInput( true );
conn.setDoOutput( true );
conn.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
conn.setUseCaches( false );
conn.setDefaultUseCaches ( false );
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/xml");
conn.setRequestProperty("Host", remoteHost);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "" + (XML_HEADER.length()+doc.length()));
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream (conn.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes(XML_HEADER);
out.write(doc.getBytes());
out.flush();
out.close();
All help will be appreciated.
thanks
Mark Johnson
781-993-9212 x375
[email protected]