Hello - we are having a problem programmatically accessing a https url
within the WebSphere container - can anyone help us?

Situation:
-User makes Web request to our WebSphere app
-Code in session bean accesses a url using the URL Java class

Results:
-This works fine if the url we access is http - it just doesn't work
when we access the https url
-This code also works fine if we run it within a Java main method
outside of WebSphere and connect to a https or http url

We figure there is some WebSphere configuration required here.  Does
anyone have any suggestions?  Do we need to configure any SSL
parameters?  Do we need to specify where any client SSL certificates
are?

Thanks, Marcus

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Marcus !

I am having the exact same problem , did you every figure out what it was ?

Thanks

Robin

quote:
Originally posted by Marcus Leon 
Hello - we are having a problem programmatically accessing a https url
within the WebSphere container - can anyone help us?

Situation:
-User makes Web request to our WebSphere app
-Code in session bean accesses a url using the URL Java class

Results:
-This works fine if the url we access is http - it just doesn't work
when we access the https url
-This code also works fine if we run it within a Java main method
outside of WebSphere and connect to a https or http url

We figure there is some WebSphere configuration required here.  Does
anyone have any suggestions?  Do we need to configure any SSL
parameters?  Do we need to specify where any client SSL certificates
are?

Thanks, Marcus 

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Marcus Leon 
[B]Hello - we are having a problem programmatically accessing a https url
within the WebSphere container - can anyone help us?

For HTTPS to work from Java you need to 
a) Install the JCE extensions in the JRE/ext folder.
b) Update the java.security file in JRE/security to contain the stuff requir
ed from the JCE (security providers, google is your friend)
c) IF the certificate the SSL site is using is untrusted, that certificate m
ust be loaded into the JRE/security/cacerts file, easiest way is to create o
ne anew with ikeyman, then import the certificate.

Reason I say this is the problem is that Ive just been testing HttpUnit usin
g a form-secured (SSL) web app, and had to do all the above.

Cheers,
andy.

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