SSL Handshake Issue

[Maruthi Chokkanathan]

Hi,
I am getting an intermittent error during ssl handshake as "SSL Implementation Not Available or untrusted server cert chain". We are triggering the java program using oracle plsql, so our jdk version is 1.3,oracle version is 9i and necessary jsse jars and permissions pertaining to that all were enabled. At one time, https connection establishes and returns the response and at some point it throws "SSL Implementation Not Available or untrusted server cert chain" and again it starts to work.

We are using httpclient 3.1 for connection establishment and everything seems to be perfect. When I googled to get some more information related to error it seems that this error occurs normally due to server certificate corruption or improper installation of jsse jars, but for us it occurs at random times only(most of the times we could able to establish the ssl connection).

Could anyone light me up some more information so that it will be helpful to proceed further.

Regards,
Maruthi

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[Maruthi Chokkanathan]

Hi All,
I managed to found the answer. It is required to set the system property to explicitly load the cacerts file,security provider and protocol type.

System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs","com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","/jre/lib/security/cacerts");//Path of Cacerts file
Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());

Without setting this properties, if we try to access the https url using httpclient it works in an inconsistent manner. Explicit loading works.

Thanks,

Regards,
Maruthi