Strange Class Cast Error in CF

[ondis]

All,

My Goal: Extending CF with CFX tag that communicates with another server using bi-directional SSL

Outside of CF my code works fine (as a servlet for example). However within CF MX7 Java VM 1.4.2_05-b04 I get a class cast exception on line 4 of the following:

url = new URL(m_sUrl); // where m_sUrl is the url of the server I want to communicate with

conn = (java.net.HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

SSLSocketFactory sf = ssl.getSocketFactory();

( (javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection) conn).setSSLSocketFactory(sf); // The offending line when run in CFMX7


When this code is run in the context of a servlet (Tomcat for example) it runs fine. However, when running it the context of a CFX tag I get the java.lang.ClassCastException when casting to the httpsURLConnection.

The java.net and javax.net.ssl classes in use are:
public abstract class URLConnection {...}
abstract public class HttpURLConnection extends URLConnection {...}
public abstract class HttpsURLConnection extends HttpURLConnection{...}

So, I am a bit confused as to why CF is throwing the ClassCastException...

Does anyone know what's going on here?

Thanks,
Ondis

[BKBK]

That used to be an HttpsUrlConnection bug in Coldfusion MX. I hadn't expected it to resurface in CFMX7. In any case, the link contains a workaround.

[ondis]

Many thanks... Works great!
Ondis

[BKBK]

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