I have seen similar problems repeatedly with SSL. I had to always load the certificate in the Java Key Store for it to work. You will have to contact the website to which you are attempting to connect and ask them to provide you with their public cert. Then, you will have to load the cert into the Java Key Store: Here is a simple bat script that will do this for you if you use Windows:
@echo off echo echo This will import an X.509 SSL certificate into the keystore for the JVM specified echo echo Press Control+C to abort. pause SETLOCAL rem ------------------------------------------------- rem 1) SET COLDFUSION JVM'S JAVA_HOME HERE rem THIS SHOULD BE THE JVM USED FOR COLDFUSION MX rem ------------------------------------------------- set JAVA_HOME=C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\jre rem ------------------------------------------------- rem 2) SET THE CERTIFICATE NAME AND ALIAS HERE rem ------------------------------------------------- set CERT_NAME=C:\temp\YourCertHere.cer set CERT_ALIAS=MyCert rem ------------------------------------------------- rem 3) SET THE KEYTOOL PASSWORD HERE rem ------------------------------------------------- set KEYTOOL_PASS=changeit rem ------------------------------------------------- rem DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE rem ------------------------------------------------- set JAVA_SECURITY=%JAVA_HOME%\lib\security set CERT=%CERT_NAME% %JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool -import -trustcacerts -keystore %JAVA_SECURITY%\cacerts -storepass %KEYTOOL_PASS% -noprompt -alias %CERT_ALIAS% -file %CERT% ENDLOCAL pause ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:306170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
