Using SSL and SOAP

[CKortmann]

Hello,
 
can someone help me? I try to do SOAP-Calls over HTTPS and I always get the
following result:
 
[SOAP-Exception: faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Client; msg=Error opening socket: null;
targetException=java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Error opening socket:
null]
 
The SOAP-Documentation says, that there's noone listening at the desired
address & port, but when I point my browser to the address I get the
response from the rpcrouter servlet...
 
My client-side code looks like this:
    
    ....
    try
    {
      SOAPHTTPConnection shc = new SOAPHTTPConnection();
      shc.setMaintainSession(false);
 
      Properties theProps = System.getProperties();
 
      switch(object.getProxyTyp())
      {
        case 1 :
        {
          if(object.sslEnabled())
          {
            theProps.put("https.proxySet", "true");
            theProps.put("https.proxyHost", pHost);
            theProps.put("https.proxyPort", pPort);
          }
          else
          {
            theProps.put("proxySet", "true");
            theProps.put("proxyHost", pHost);
            theProps.put("proxyPort", pPort);
          }
          break;
        }
        case 2 :
          if(object.sslEnabled())
          {
            theProps.put("https.socksProxySet", "true");
            theProps.put("https.socksProxyHost", pHost);
            theProps.put("https.socksProxyPort", pPort);
          }
          else
          {
            theProps.put("socksProxySet", "true");
            theProps.put("socksProxyHost", pHost);
            theProps.put("socksProxyPort", pPort);
          }
          break;
        default :
        {
          theProps.put("proxySet", "false");
          theProps.put("socksProxySet", "false");
          theProps.put("https.proxySet", "false");
          theProps.put("https.socksProxySet", "false");
        }
      }
 
      if(object.sslEnabled())
      {
        theProps.put("java.protocol.handler.pkgs",
"com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
        Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
 
        if(m_strServerPort.equals("443"))
          m_strServerURL = "https://"; + m_strServerIP +
"/soap/servlet/rpcrouter";
        else
          m_strServerURL = "https" + m_strServerURL;
      }
      else
        m_strServerURL = "http" + m_strServerURL;
 
      System.setProperties(theProps);
 
      Vector params = new Vector ();
 
      params.addElement(new Parameter("arg1", String.class, m_strRequest,
null));
 
// making the SOAP-Call
      Call theCall = new Call();
 
      theCall.setSOAPTransport(shc);
      theCall.setTargetObjectURI(m_strTargetObjectURI);
      theCall.setMethodName(web_service);
      theCall.setEncodingStyleURI(m_strEncodingStyleURI);
      theCall.setParams(params);
 
      URL ServerUrl = new URL(m_strServerURL);
 
      Response inquiry_response = theCall.invoke(ServerUrl, null);
 
      Parameter result = inquiry_response.getReturnValue();
 
      if(inquiry_response.generatedFault())
      {
        Fault theFault = inquiry_response.getFault();
        inquiry_result_string = stringError("01", "Fehler beim Aufruf des
WebService\n" + theFault.getFaultCode() + "\n" + theFault.getFaultString());
      }
      else
        inquiry_result_string =
inquiry_response.getReturnValue().getValue().toString();
    ......
    
 
Can someone tell me where I'm going wrong and how I can correct the problem,
please. I don't (and cannot) use client authentication, so I left that out.
I'm working with Apache SOAP v.2.2 and JSSE 1.0.2, but it's no problem to
change versions if that solves the problem!
 
 
Thank you for your time!
 
Sincerely,
Carsten Kortmann