Tomcat https

[daniel martin]

Hi,
I'm trying to get my tomcat instance to connect over https to an external
server.
I have written a test servlet to do this

String httpsURL = "*https*://*example*.microsoft.com";
   URL myurl = new URL(httpsURL);
   HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)myurl.openConnection();
   InputStream ins = con.getInputStream();
   InputStreamReader isr=new InputStreamReader(ins);
   BufferedReader in =new BufferedReader(isr);
   String inputLine;
   while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
   out.println(inputLine);
   in.close();


But always get the following exception

java.net.UnknownHostException: example.microsoft.com
        java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
        java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:519)
        java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:469)....

Any ideas?

Cheers

Dan