Message-Id: <199908191715.KAA12681@shorter.eng.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:13:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jeff Nisewanger <Jeff.Nisewanger@eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: the naive question of the month
To: java-security@java.sun.com, mark.kennedy@gs.com
> i get:
>
> java.net.MalformedURLException: unknown protocol: https
>
> jsee.jar, jnet.jar, and jcert.jar are in the $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext
> dir of my linux v1.2 java installation.
>
> and com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider is my security.provider.1
> value.
>
> did i miss some 'protocol factory' configuration tweak?
Yes. See the README file from the download web page. The URL is
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/jsse/README.txt.
You need to configure a system property to tell the JRE's URL class
where to find the https protocol handler.
Jeff