AXIS over HTTPS... help needed urgently!

["Thomas, Jolly (Cognizant)" <Jo...@pun.cognizant.com>]

Hi,

We created new webservice using Apache Axis 1.0 version and integrated with our existing application deployed on websphere 4.0
We deployed using the command as :
java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient deploy.wsdd -lhttp://hostname:9080/context/services/TrialService

For our existing application we had our IPlanet webserver as secured. All our requests hit the webserver which redirects to our websphere application server and since our webservice is integrated with this existing application we thought not much change will be required ..

Just that we specified the three settings needed at the client end..

	System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", trustStoreDirPath);
	System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", trustStorePassword);

	System.setProperty("java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "com.sun.net.ssl.internal.www.protocol");
	Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());

but then when we try to invoke our service thru the java client with the URL as
https://hostname/context/servlet/AxisServlet 
it gives error as follows..



- Mapping Exception to AxisFault
AxisFault
 faultCode: {http://xml.apache.org/axis/}Server.userException
 faultString: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The root element is required in a well-formed document.
 faultActor: null
 faultDetail:
        stackTrace: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The root element is required in a well-formed document.
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java:1196)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.reportFatalXMLError(XMLDocumentScanner.java:570)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.endOfInput(XMLDocumentScanner.java:790)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.endOfInput(XMLDocumentScanner.java:418)
        at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.sendEndOfInputNotifications(XMLValidator.java:694)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.changeReaders(DefaultEntityHandler.java:1026)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.XMLEntityReader.changeReaders(XMLEntityReader.java:168)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.UTF8Reader.changeReaders(UTF8Reader.java:182)
        at org.apache.xerces.readers.UTF8Reader.lookingAtChar(UTF8Reader.java(Compiled Code))
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$XMLDeclDispatcher.dispatch(XMLDocumentScanner.java:686)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner.java:381)
        at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:1081)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:379)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:232)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:546)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:377)
        at org.apache.axis.server.AxisServer.invoke(AxisServer.java:304)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServlet.doPost(AxisServlet.java:701)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:760)
        at org.apache.axis.transport.http.AxisServletBase.service(AxisServletBase.java:335)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictServletInstance.doService(ServletManager.java:827)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet._service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:167)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.IdleServletState.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:297)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.StrictLifecycleServlet.service(StrictLifecycleServlet.java:110)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletInstance.service(ServletManager.java:472)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ValidServletReferenceState.dispatch(ServletManager.java:1012)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.ServletInstanceReference.dispatch(ServletManager.java:913)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.handleWebAppDispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:523)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.dispatch(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:282)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.webapp.WebAppRequestDispatcher.forward(WebAppRequestDispatcher.java:112)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebAppInvoker.doForward(WebAppInvoker.java:91)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srt.WebAppInvoker.handleInvocationHook(WebAppInvoker.java:184)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.invocation.CachedInvocation.handleInvocation(CachedInvocation.java:67)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.srp.ServletRequestProcessor.dispatchByURI(ServletRequestProcessor.java:122)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.oselistener.OSEListenerDispatcher.service(OSEListener.java:315)
        at com.ibm.servlet.engine.http11.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:60)
        at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.readAndHandleRequest(HttpConnection.java:323)
        at com.ibm.ws.http.HttpConnection.run(HttpConnection.java:252)
        at com.ibm.ws.util.CachedThread.run(ThreadPool.java:122)


org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The root element is required in a well-formed document.
        at org.apache.axis.message.SOAPFaultBuilder.endElement(SOAPFaultBuilder.java:135)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.endElement(DeserializationContextImpl.java:942)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1528)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1779)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1507)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.content(Parser2.java:1779)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.maybeElement(Parser2.java:1507)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:500)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)
        at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)
        at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:345)
        at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContextImpl.parse(DeserializationContextImpl.java:232)
        at org.apache.axis.SOAPPart.getAsSOAPEnvelope(SOAPPart.java:546)
        at org.apache.axis.Message.getSOAPEnvelope(Message.java:377)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invokeEngine(Call.java:2132)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:2102)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1851)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1777)
        at org.apache.axis.client.Call.invoke(Call.java:1315)
        at Client.main(Client.java:52)
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The root element is required in a well-formed document.

We are able to hit the same url i.e.
https://hostname/context/servlet/AxisServlet  as well as 
http://hostname/context/servlet/AxisServlet 
thru browser and we could see the result page but thru java client we are getting the above error..
Is this some bug in Axis 1.0 release??

Did anybody faced this similiar kind of problem???? If yes then please help us solve this problem. It's a bit urgent!

Thanks and Regards,
Jolly