Thanks for that Lawrence, I'll give it a try. I strongly suspect a dud cert as well. I copied each of the 3 certs from the XML file and pasted each one into a BEGIN/END block for used CertificateFactory to open them. 2 opened fine but the 1st had insufficient data to be read.
That would explain why XMLBeans was having trouble with it but it doesn't help with why the bean can't read the other cert that CertificateFactory could. Would it help if I posted the XML with the signature and X509s? many thanks for your help, Alistair -- Alistair Young Senior Software Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mòr Ostaig Isle of Skye Scotland > Hi Alistair > > Without seeing the cert it's difficult to tell. > > According to the schema the X509CertificateArray type within X509DataType > is of type base64Binary. So your error is coming from > org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.values.JavaBase64Holder in the public method > lex() at line 77. I apologise that the error message is not very helpful - > there's even a note in the code right there to say we should update it > when we get time. > > But the reason you're getting this is that it is unable to decode the > String that's being passed in. JavaBase64Holder.lex() simply converts the > String to UTF-8 bytes and then passes those bytes into Base64.decode() > which must be returning null for you to see this error. > > Base64.decode() is a public static method. So if I were you I'd just write > a quick test harness to get the String that's causing you problems, > convert it to UTF-8 bytes and call Base64.decode() yourself. Then you can > just step through the code and see which line is returning null. Then > you'll know what in particular it is objecting to (there are several > places in Base64.decode() where it can return null). > > If you do this make sure that the String is correct when you set it up > i.e. that you convert it from whatever byte format you are using for input > (a File, an InputStream ...) using the correct encoding (usually UTF-8 for > XML - but you might be overriding it). Otherwise your String will be wrong > and then the UTF-8 bytes will be wrong which will throw you off. > > Cheers, > > Lawrence > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alistair Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 3:18 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: X509 XmlValueOutOfRangeException >> >> I have a signed xml packet that contains 4 X509 certs. Two of them >> produce: >> >> "XmlValueOutOfRangeException Invalid value: not encoded properly" >> >> when using X509DataType.getX509CertificateArray(). The other 2 certs are >> fine. >> >> Is there anything in the cert that could cause this exception? >> >> many thanks, >> >> Alistair >> >> >> -- >> Alistair Young >> Senior Software Engineer >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mòr Ostaig >> Isle of Skye >> Scotland >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
