http over ssl gives an empty map of headerFields (with examplecode)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:40:48 +0200, Ronald Klop  
> <ronald-freebsd8 at klop.yi.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to run an application which makes a connection over ssl. 
>> It  retreives some fields using the method  
>> HttpUrlConnection.getHeaderFields(). But this returns an empty Map. If 
>> I  run the same program on a Linux machine with Sun JDK 1.5 it runs 
>> very  well and get some headerfields (which are important for the 
>> application).
>>
>> My system is.
>> $ uname -a
>> FreeBSD guido.klop.ws 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Tue Oct 11 00:29:56  
>> CEST 2005     root at guido.klop.ws:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GUIDO  i386
>>
>> $ java -version
>> java version "1.5.0-p2"
>> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build  
>> 1.5.0-p2-root_06_oct_2005_21_46)
>> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-p2-root_06_oct_2005_21_46, 
>> mixed  mode)
>>
>> If I can find the time I will try to create a better testcase, but 
>> maybe  it is a known problem and somebody knows how to fix this.
> 
> 
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
> import java.net.URL;
> 
> public final class HttpsTest {
> 
>     /**
>      * @param args
>      * @throws IOException
>      */
>     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
>         HttpURLConnection httpsConn = null;
>         URL url = new URL("https://www.google.com/");
> 
>         httpsConn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
>         System.out.println(httpsConn.getHeaderFields());
>     }
> 
> }
> 
> This class gives this output on FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 and 5.4-STABLE with 
> java  1.5:
> $ java HttpsTest
> {}
> 
> on 6.0-RC1 with java 1.4:
> $ java HttpsTest
> {Content-Length=[151], null=[HTTP/1.1 302 Found], Date=[Wed, 12 Oct 
> 2005  19:52:46 GMT], Content-Type=[text/html], Server=[GFE/1.3],  
> Location=[http://www.google.com]}
> 
> on Linux 2.6 with java 1.5:
> $ java HttpsTest
> {Content-Length=[151], Date=[Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:50:24 GMT],  
> Content-Type=[text/html], Server=[GFE/1.3],  
> Location=[http://www.google.com], null=[HTTP/1.1 302 Found]}
> 
> Do other people have this?

Nope, it works fine here (6.0-BETA5) with both 1.4/1.5.

Panagiotis