Servlet as client ssl connection

Question

I am trying to establish an ssl socket connection from a servlet to a secure web server. I'm running the servlet on Tomcat 4.0 and have the following code in my servlet...
try {
String server = "localhost";
int port = 8443;
java.security.Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
// create socket connection
SSLSocketFactory factory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(server,port);
// if connected
System.out.println("Connected to " + server + " via https");
// close the socket after the request is sent
socket.close();
catch (Exception e)
System.out.println("Can't connect to " + server);
System.out.println(e);
When I use this code in an application it works, but when I use it in a servlet I get an exception stating that the SSL implementation is not available. My suspicion is that the security provider is not being registered properly.
Any suggestions?
rlvis

Answer 1

hi,
Think to add the following protocol handler ???
System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs","com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");