HttpClient should solve your problem:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/ht.../sslguide.html
"Tom N" <tom@nospam.au> wrote in message news:<sCw6c.110468$Wa.32149@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...[color=blue]
> See
http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/retr...salert%2F57436
>
> The error is because the Class 3 and Class 2 root certificates installed in
> your version of Java have expired. It says you can either download the
> latest JRE or JDK or you can download certificates from verisign and install
> them.
>
> I tried your code and the following is the status of a list of URLs before I
> updated the certificate. I am using JDK 1.4.1_02-b06 by the way. This list
> is taken from the Javaworld article you referenced.
>
>
https://www.verisign.com/ failed
>
https://happiness.dhs.org/ failed
>
https://www.microsoft.com worked
>
https://www.sun.com failed (IIRC)
>
https://www.ftc.gov failed
>
> Interestingly, those that failed did not all have the same exception thrown.
>
> I updated the cert's as detailed in the sunsolve article and now all of the
> URLs worked except dhs.org, which is because it uses a self-signed
> certifcate (not using a Verisign or similar root certificate).
>
> "Generic Usenet Account" wrote:[color=green]
> > I am trying to create a Java application that reads a list of URLs
> > from a file and stores their contents on the local file system. I
> > have succeeded in accessing normal websites, but I am unable to access
> > the secured websites (using the HTTPS protocol) using this approach.
> >
> > I would greatly appreciate if someone could suggest a way out. I have
> > looked at the HttpsURLConnection class, but unfortunately this class
> > is abstract.
> >
> > [My apolgies to readers of comp.lang.java and comp.sources.d since
> > this posting may appear to be a repost of my previous posting
> > (although it is not) --- Bhat]
> >
> > My source code follows:
> >
> > /////////////////// Source code begin /////////////////////
> >
> > // This program reads a list of URLs to access and store on the local
> > // file system from a file. The name of the file is passed as the
> > // first command line argument. Each URL is on a separate line.
> > // Lines beginning with the '#' character are treated as blanks and
> > // are skipped.
> > //
> > import java.io.*;
> > import java.net.*;
> > import java.security.*;
> >
> >
> > class WebsiteLoader
> > {
> > public static char replaceChar = '~';
> >
> > public static void main(String argv[]) throws IOException
> > {
> > // The following two lines were suggested by the following
> > website:
> > //
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/j...javatip96.html
> > // They help in suppressing the java.net.MalformedURLException
> > System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs",
> > "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
> > Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
> >
> > BufferedReader br;
> > String origName;
> >
> > if(argv.length != 0)
> > {
> > br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(argv[0]));
> >
> > // Read URLs from the file. Skip blank lines and lines
> > beginning
> > // with the '#' character.
> > for(;;)
> > {
> > origName = br.readLine();
> > if(origName == null)
> > break;
> >
> > origName = origName.trim();
> >
> > if(origName.length() == 0)
> > continue;
> >
> > if(origName.charAt(0) == '#')
> > continue;
> >
> > URL url = new URL(origName);
> > if(url == null)
> > continue;
> >
> > BufferedReader bufRdr = new BufferedReader(new
> > InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
> >
> > // The name of the file to which the website contents are
> > written
> > // is derived from the URL by substituting the following
> > characters
> > // with some "non-offending" character:
> > // \,/,:,*,?,",<,>,|
> >
> > String modName = origName;
> > modName = modName.replace('\\', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('/', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace(':', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('*', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('?', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('"', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('<', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('>', replaceChar);
> > modName = modName.replace('|', replaceChar);
> >
> > FileWriter fWriter = new FileWriter(modName);
> >
> >
> > System.out.println("Writing contents of " + origName + " to "
> > +
> > "the following file: " + modName);
> > for(;;)
> > {
> > String thisLine = bufRdr.readLine();
> > if(thisLine == null)
> > break;
> >
> > fWriter.write(thisLine);
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> > }
> >
> > /////////////////// Source code end //////////////////////[/color][/color]
