big problems with java.net.URL

[John Davis]

I have an application which successfully constructs a URL object, opens a connection, and writes to an Https server - However, this same application fails when the URL object is constructed for a proxy.

  
java.net.URL endpoint = null;
        String  URLroot  =   ConfigManager.getProperty( "StanleyWebservicesEndpointRoot" ) ;
        String  stanleyWebservicesEndpointURL  =   URLroot + "/submit.asmx";

        //String  testURL =   new String ("http://cc.stanleyworks.com/swk/submit.asmx");
        //String  stanleyWebservicesEndpointURL  =   testURL;
        try
        {
            endpoint = new java.net.URL (
                                            protocol,
                                            host,
                                            port,
                                            stanleyWebservicesEndpointURL
                                        );
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("Malformed URL Exception*****");
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
        java.net.URLConnection con;
        con =   null;
        try
        {
            con     =   endpoint.openConnection ();
        }
        catch (IOException e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println("IO Exception GETTING URLConnection *****");
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }

If I construct the URL object with just the target address, the application connects Https to the server and everything works properly.
As soon as I construct the URL object with protocol ("https"), hostName, and port, the connection fails with SSL Handshake problems.
Anybody have an idea how to go about working on this problem?
[ August 28, 2003: Message edited by: Ernest Friedman-Hill ]