JBoss SSL Setup for remote clients

[bparanj]

Hi,

I followed the instructions at
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SSLSetup

I was able to get the ReadHttpsURL2.java working. The problem is that it works only if I use localhost in the URL and run it on the same machine. If I run the client on a remote machine I get the following error:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: HTTPS hostname wrong: should be

<Neptune>

at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.https.b.b(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.https.b.o(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.https.q.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.http.cg.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at com.ibm.net.ssl.www.protocol.https.t.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:941)
at acme.ReadHttpsURL2.main(ReadHttpsURL2.java:16)

Any pointers on how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance.
Bala

[bparanj]

I resolved this error message. SSL setup instructions on Wiki works if I use localhost but fails if I run it from a remote machine and use the machine's name.

I modified the Http client based on the Sun's tutorial. Here is the fix:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;

public class ReadHttpsURL3 {
 public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception {
 URL url = new URL(argv[0]);
 HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
 connection.setHostnameVerifier(new MyVerified());
 connection.setDoOutput(true);
 BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
 new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
 String line;
 while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
 System.out.println(line);
 }
 in.close();
 }
}

class MyVerified implements HostnameVerifier {
 public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
 return true ;
 }
}

Also make sure that you use Sun's JDK 1.4.2 or higher. I was getting some weird errors due to IBM's JVM.

Hope this helps someone.
Bala
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