going mad about HttpsURLConnection

Hi there ,

maybe there are thousands of similar postings in that forum,
or maybe there are millions of great tutorials about it on the
internet. As far as it concerns me, I found loads of very
abstract papers about that ssl stuff, but much to abstruse
for a newb like me. So here's my problem:
There's a https server I want to connect to with my Java application.
All I have is the server's IP, port, a keystore with client
trusted certificates and a password. That's it.
I'm sure, there has to be a way to connect to that stupid server, but since now I didn't find a way. Would you please be so kind to help me out of that problem? I'm really loosing hope

Thanx in advance ...
- Thomas -
[ September 25, 2003: Message edited by: Thomas Rochon ]

Hi Thomas,
try:
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","mykeystore");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "123456");
SSLSocketFactory factory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
SSLSocket client = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(host, port);
DataInput in = new DataInputStream(client.getInputStream());
PrintStream out = new PrintStream(client.getOutputStream());
out.println("ClientMessage");
String response = in.readLine();
System.out.println(response);
client.close();
HTH
Torsten

Sorry,
with HttpsURLConnection:
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","mykeystore");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "123456");
URL url = new URL("https://127.0.0.1:443/");
HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();

Hi Torsten !
Cant believe it's that simple. But it works !

Your small code snippet helped me out of a lot of trouble.
Thanx ! Thanx a lot !

Best regards,
- Thomas -