Tunneling and problem with unknown host exception

Question

hello! i've got a problem with https. i use jdk 1.5.0, jboss-4.0.4.ga-patch1, soap.
and i'm going crasy.. i've testet my client code at our network and it works fine. but if i want to get jobs from the server of our customer, my client throw an "unknown host exception: firm".
i wonder why it hasn't the full host. the url may look like this: https://firm.sub.com:443/ and while the client connects to the server, i depugged it and the host is correct: firm.sub.
but after the connection, when the client want to get something from the server (when it wants to communicate with the server over soap) it crashs.
my client code looks like this:
private ClientInterfaceEndpoint getClientInterface() throws ServiceException {
QName serviceQName = new QName(DOCSERVER_NAMESPACE, CLIENT_INTERFACE_SERVICENAME);
URL wsdlUrl = getClientInterfaceWsdlUrl();
log.info("*******WSDLURL host: " + wsdlUrl.getHost()); // out: firm.sub
log.info("*******WSDLURL port: " + wsdlUrl.getPort()); // out: 443
URL mapping = getClass().getClassLoader().getResource("META-INF/DocumentServer_Mapping.xml");
log.info("*******MappingURL path: " + mapping.getPath());
if (wsdlUrl.toString().toLowerCase().contains("https")) {
if (null == getConfig().getTruststore() || getConfig().getTruststore().equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
throw new RuntimeException("No or incorrect TruststorePath in the docclient-config");
File tmp = new File(getConfig().getTruststore());
if (!tmp.isFile() || !tmp.canRead()) {
throw new RuntimeException("The truststore at the 'TruststorePath' isn't a file or can't be read.");
System.setProperty(SYS_PROPERTY_KEY_TRUST, getConfig().getTruststore());
System.setProperty(SYS_PROPERTY_KEY_TRUST_PW, config.getTruststorePass());
ServiceFactoryImpl factory = null;
factory = (ServiceFactoryImpl) ServiceFactory.newInstance();
Service clientInterfaceService = null;
try {// create the service for the ClientInterface
clientInterfaceService = factory.createService(wsdlUrl, serviceQName, mapping, new URL(config.getServerURL())); //, new URL(config.getServerURL())
log.info("*******ClientInterFaceService WSDL URL Host: " + clientInterfaceService.getWSDLDocumentLocation().getHost()); // out:firm.sub
log.info("*******ClientInterFaceService WSDL URL Port: " + clientInterfaceService.getWSDLDocumentLocation().getPort()); // out: 443
} catch (ServiceException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage());
throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
log.error(e.getMessage());
throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error(e.getMessage());
throw new RuntimeException(e.getMessage());
}// getting the ClientInterfaceEndpoint
ClientInterfaceEndpoint clientInterface = (ClientInterfaceEndpoint) clientInterfaceService.getPort(ClientInterfaceEndpoint.class);
return clientInterface;
protected URL getClientInterfaceWsdlUrl() {
URL url = null;
String urlString = getConfig().getServerURL() + CLIENT_INTERFACE_URI + "?wsdl";
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
Properties properties = System.getProperties();
String handlers = System.getProperty(SYS_PROPERTY_KEY_PKGS);
if (handlers == null) {
properties.put(SYS_PROPERTY_KEY_PKGS, SYS_PROPERTY_VALUE_PKGS);
else {
properties.put(SYS_PROPERTY_KEY_PKGS, SYS_PROPERTY_VALUE_PKGS.concat("|").concat(handlers));
try {
url = new URL(urlString);
log.info("*******URL host: " + url.getHost());
log.info("*******URL port: " + url.getPort());
log.info("*******URL path: " + url.getPath());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
log.fatal("DocumentProvider SOAP configured incorrectly. DocServer URL malformed: " + urlString);
throw new RuntimeException("DocumentProvider SOAP configured incorrectly. DocServer URL malformed: " + urlString, e);
System.setProperties(properties);
return url;
}if it's usefull: the customer use a apache server (not tomcat) where a the server is and the client at another system the jboss.
The customer told me: if i want to connect the client via http i have to tunnel.. maybe i have to tunnel using https too?
have i to generate the endpoint classes a second time, extra for https?
or doesn't soap like host like "firm.sub"?
can anyone help me please?!
sorry, my english isn't very well...

Answer 1

sorry, it's not the same error. The output is: Unable to connect to any host due to exception: java.net.socket.exception: java.net.socket.exception: Unregcognized windows socket error: 10106: create.