HTTP(S) Timeout while invoking WebService over HTTPS.

Hello,
I have some stress with my webservice client implementation.
I do the following (I can post source code if needed):
- As usual:
System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs","com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
- Install my TrustManager
- Install my DefaultHostnameVerifier
- Register a custom type
- Make a javax.xml.rpc.Call to access a webservice
My observations:
The code works well when using an HTTP URL, just changing the target URL to HTTPS causes the problem.
The HTTPS web service (on server) works well seeing a HTTPS client using the weblogic SSL implementation can easily connect.
When I use a simple and direct "Open HttpsURLConnection on URL("https://xxx.service?WSDL"); print-out-all-that's-coming-in", it works well. I think my SSL access is made correctly.
The client does not complain about not-installed SSL things, all certificates are accepted, etc. No problem at this part.
System.setProperty("javax.net.debug", "all") is set, but i dont see anything of interrest.
I use the packages contained in 'java_xml_pack-summer-02_01' of SUN (jaxm-1.1_01, jaxp-1.2_01,jaxr-1.0_02 etc and the jsse 1.0.3). No weblogic SSL stuff used.
The server is weblogic 7.
Calling
call.setTargetEndpointAddress("http://arakis:7001/traces_ws/searchCertificate");
works well while
call.setTargetEndpointAddress("https://arakis:7002/traces_ws/searchCertificate");
causes (after 2 minutes):
HTTP transport error: java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.http.HttpClientTransport.invoke(HttpClientTransport.java:189)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._send(StreamingSender.java:73)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl.doInvoke(CallInvokerImpl.java:54)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.BasicCall.invoke(BasicCall.java:279)
at SSLSOAPClient.main(SSLSOAPClient.java:264)
CAUSE:
java.net.SocketException: Unexpected end of file from server
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:699)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:604)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(HttpClient.java:697)
at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(HttpClient.java:604)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.http.handler.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:543)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.http.handler.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:920)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.http.HttpClientTransport.invoke(HttpClientTransport.java:123)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.StreamingSender._send(StreamingSender.java:73)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.CallInvokerImpl.doInvoke(CallInvokerImpl.java:54)
at com.sun.xml.rpc.client.dii.BasicCall.invoke(BasicCall.java:279)
at SSLSOAPClient.main(SSLSOAPClient.java:264)
Exception in thread "main"
What I note is that the call is using a HttpURLConnection object and NOT a HttpsURLConnection object (so problems are 'normal' i guess), but I dont have any clue what I have to do to instruct the client to use HTTPS other than specifying HTTPS in the target.
Hope someone has an idea

Tasha

FYI, problem solved by updating to JDK 1.4 ... yeah!

Natasha!.. Welcome to Javaranch