SSL handshake failed: X509CertChainIncompleteErr

Question

I am trying to send name-value pairs using https and JSSE. I am using JDev 9i, and first I create a war file and bundle JSSE with it, then deploy it to an ear file, and use Enterprise Manager of 9iAS Rel2 to deploy the ear file to the server (on Windows 2000).
I get the following error (please excuse the test output lines):
Response: xxx test000+ test0+ test1+ test2+ test3+ test4+ test4a+
javax.net.ssl.SSLException: SSL handshake failed: X509CertChainIncompleteErr
Here's my code:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import com.sun.net.ssl.*;
public class testsend {
public testsend()
public String myTest () throws Exception {
String endresult = "xxx ";
String url = "https://www.mysite.com/myfile.php?" ;
endresult = endresult + "test000+ ";
// actual name-value pairs are sent out, this is just an example
String data = "name1=value1&name2=value2";
URL server = null;
try {
server = new URL(url);
endresult = endresult + "test0+ ";
catch(MalformedURLException e) {
endresult = endresult + e.getMessage();
ObjectInputStream myresponse = null;
Object result = null;
try {
URLConnection con = server.openConnection();
endresult = endresult + "test1+ ";
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setUseCaches(false);
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
endresult = endresult + "test2+ ";
ObjectOutputStream request = new ObjectOutputStream(new BufferedOutputStream(con.getOutputStream()));
endresult = endresult + "test3+ ";
request.writeObject(data);
endresult = endresult + "test4+ ";
request.flush();
endresult = endresult + "test4a+ ";
request.close();
endresult = endresult + "test4b+ ";
// get the result input stream
myresponse = new ObjectInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(con.getInputStream()));
endresult = endresult + "test6+ ";
// read response back from the server
result = myresponse.readObject();
endresult = endresult + result.toString();
catch(Exception e) {
endresult = endresult + e.getMessage();
return endresult;
I've searched for the error message on the web but did not have much luck finding a solution. It obviously won't open a input stream.
Any one have any thoughts? Thanks.
jv

Answer 1

Hi Francisco,
I am(Oracle 9iAS) sending SOAP messages over SSL to a remote server(Microsoft IIS) hosting the web services. The remote HTTPS site is up and I can view the certificate. It has a 3 level chain. user certificate, intermediate and a root CA.
Through my application when I try to establish handshake, I have some code to display the certificate chain of the remote server. Here I see only the user and the intermediate certificate. I donot see the root CA. I understand that this is the reason for the Incomplete cert chain error. Is this something the remote server hosting the web services should do with their configuration?? Or can I do something at my end??
Please let me know,
Thank you