How to reproduce "DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=127, too big"

[Maulin Vasavada]

Hi all,

[Aah, after long long time I am posting on this forum]

I have this issue where in our QA env on the unix machine running Sun JDK 1.6 we get the below exception when we try to hit a HTTPS url for a text file to be downloaded into our system.

In my local eclipse the file download works fine and I am using Sun JDK1.6.

I found some threads on google discussing this issue however I wanted to "reproduce this in my local eclipse". I don't know how to do it. I can download the certificate and all but I don't know how can I reproduce this locally.

I think there is some issue with the crypto policy files in the QA Unix machine where it is configured not to support the sha1RSA with 1024 bit key certificate BUT only if I reproduce on my local box I can do more testing.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

java.io.IOException: DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=127, too big.
at sun.security.util.DerInputStream.getLength(DerInputStream.java:544)
at sun.security.util.DerValue.init(DerValue.java:346)
at sun.security.util.DerValue.<init>(DerValue.java:302)
at sun.security.provider.X509Factory.engineGenerateCertificate(X509Factory.java:104)
at java.security.cert.CertificateFactory.generateCertificate(CertificateFactory.java:305)

Thanks
Maulin

[James Sabre]

A long shot - does your server have the Unlimited Strength files installed.

[Maulin Vasavada]

Yes. My QA machine which is trying to download the file from HTTPS url does have "unlimited strength" files installed. You mean the US export policy file etc right?

Thanks
Maulin