NoSuchAlgorithmException when reading HTTPS URL

[Ivan Jouikov]

Hi!

I am simply trying to read from an HTTPS URL. I am running java 1.5.

Here's what I write:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.*;
import java.security.Security;
import java.util.Properties;
 
public class UseHttps {
    
public static void main(String argv[]) {
    
String fullURL = "https://fortress.wa.gov/lni/bbip/detail.aspx?License=SIBLUCL004C5";
try {

    URL page = new URL(fullURL); // Process the URL far enough to find the right handler
    URLConnection urlc = page.openConnection();
    urlc.setUseCaches(false); // Don't look at possibly cached data
    System.out.println("Content-type = " + urlc.getContentType()); // See what's here
    System.out.println("Content-length = " + urlc.getContentLength()); // See how much of it there is
    // Read it all and print it out
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlc.getInputStream()));
    String buffer = "";
    while (buffer != null) {
        try {
            System.out.println(buffer);
            buffer = br.readLine();
        }
        catch (IOException ioe) {
            ioe.printStackTrace();
            break;
        }
    }
}
catch (MalformedURLException mue) {
System.out.println(fullURL + " is not a URL that can be resolved");
}
catch (IOException ie) {
ie.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Here's the error I get:

Content-type = null
Content-length = -1
javax.net.ssl.SSLKeyException: RSA premaster secret error
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at UseHttps.main(UseHttps.java:21)
Caused by: javax.net.ssl.SSLKeyException: RSA premaster secret error
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.PreMasterSecret.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverHelloDone(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderField(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLConnection.getContentType(Unknown Source)
at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getContentType(Unknown Source)
at UseHttps.main(UseHttps.java:18)
Caused by: java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException: Cannot find any provider supporting RSA/ECB/PKCS1Padding
at javax.crypto.Cipher.getInstance(DashoA12275)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.JsseJce.getCipher(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.RSACipher.<init>(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.RSACipher.getInstance(Unknown Source)
... 15 more

Anybody has any idea how to fix this?

[Eddie Vanda]

Hi Ivan,

I don't know much about this, but could you not use class HttpsURLConnection?

Ed

[Ivan Jouikov]

HTTPSConnection is subclass of URLConnection, and i am not in control of what url.openConnection() returns.

[Eddie Vanda]

Hi, I just ran your code as you wrote it in 1.5 and got this output:

Content-type = text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-length = -1

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
<!--
document.c o o k i e = "IV_JCT=%2Flni%2Fbbip; path=/";
//-->
</SCRIPT>

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>Look Up a Contractor, Electrician or Plumber License Detail</title>
<meta content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1" name="GENERATOR">
<meta content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1" name="CODE_LANGUAGE">
<meta content="JavaScript" name="vs_defaultClientScript">
<meta content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5" name="vs_targetSchema">
</HEAD>
<body>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<title>header</title>
<!-- these variables need to be modified for your application -->

// deleted middle for space


</td></tr>
</TABLE>
</DIV>
<br><br><br>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="templates/javascript/footer.js"></script>
<!-- InstanceEnd -->

</body>
</HTML>

[Ivan Jouikov]

So what could this mean? I have some missing libraries or something?