[NUTCH-636] Http client plug-in https doesn't work on IBM JRE

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: fetcher

Environment

Suse Enterprise Linux SLES 10 SP1
java version "1.5.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build pxi32dev-20080315 (SR7))
IBM J9 VM (build 2.3, J2RE 1.5.0 IBM J9 2.3 Linux x86-32 j9vmxi3223-20080315 (JIT enabled)
J9VM - 20080314_17962_lHdSMr
JIT - 20080130_0718ifx2_r8
GC - 200802_08)
JCL - 20080314

• Assignee: Andrzej Bialecki
• Reporter: Curtis d'Entremont
• Created: 23/Jun/08 19:10
• Updated: 10/Apr/09 12:29
• Resolved: 06/Feb/09 13:17

Description

I want to crawl my site, which is https, using the protocol-httpclient plug-in. However it throws exceptions each request, something about an unknown algorithm "SunX509" for SSL. I don't recall the exact message. I don't have permission to change the JRE on our production server.

I had to modify DummyX509TrustManager to hardcode the string to "IbmX509" instead of "SunX509" in order to work. It would be better if the plug-in could automatically figure out which one to use. At the very least, try the major ones until you don't hit any exception and take that one.