Need JSSE to access HTTPS web page?

[volcano]

Hello, my java program has to access https web pages. Having gone through some java references, I find I may need to install an extra thing called JSSE to do this. Is it true? Could I make use of the current JDK classes to access https web pages? The way I access the web pages is that: URL u = new URL("

https://XXX.com/YYY.html"),

but MalformedURLException will appear...

Thank you very much!

 

[sedj]

You don't need JSSE ...

URL url = new URL("..."
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

should do it.

Failing that, dump jsse.jar in your CLASSPATH and do

URL url = new URL("..."
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.

http://www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnection

conn = (com.sun.net.ssl.internal.

http://www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();

 

[volcano]

Thank you for you reply!

I am not sure, but may I ask if it's true that only Applet can support HTTPS without installation of JSSE, but Java application will need JSSE. For my case, I need to access the HTTPS pages and save their contents into physical files. I am not sure again if Applet is able to write something into the local harddisk. Do you have any idea?

Thanks in advance!

 

[sedj]

Applets cant write to local HD unless an appropriate security.policy is set up.

As I said before, you DON'T need jsse to access https sites ...

URL url = new URL("..."
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();

... will work !

 

[volcano]

Hi sedj, thanks for your reply again.

I have tried to write codes and test according to your hint to me. The sample code is shown below:
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import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class TEST
{
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
URL uu = new URL("

http://XXX/default.htm");

HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) uu.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));

String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
System.out.println(inputLine);

in.close();
}
}

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if the URL is HTTP web page, it works well. But if I replace it to be another HTTPS web page (eg.

https://ZZZ/default.htm),

the program will throw a MalformedURLException exception. So is my program incorrect? Do u have any idea?

thanks!