Turn on SSL debug, that should give more information about why it failed:

-Dssl.debug=true -Dweblogic.StdoutDebugEnabled=true

Tony


"Tan Yok Hong" wrote in message
news:3f17e766$1@newsgroups.bea.com...
>
> Here's my situation :
>
> I am attempting to connect to a SSL-enabled webserver via a servlet in
WebLogic
> 7.0.
> The SSL-enabled webserver uses the Verisign certificate.
>
> I keep getting the following exception :
> java.io.IOException: Write Channel Closed, possible SSL handshaking or
trust failure
> at com.certicom.tls.record.WriteHandler.write(Unknown Source)
> at
com.certicom.tls.interfaceimpl.TLSConnectionImpl.f ireAlertSent(Unknown
> Source)
>
> Having looked through the forums, I have already done the following :
> - Imported both the Verisign CA Root Cert and the Verisign Intermediate
Cert into
> the
> WebLogic cacerts
> - Started the WebLogic server with the following options :
> -Dweblogic.security.SSL.trustedCAKeyStore=C:\bea\we blogic700\server\lib\
cacerts
> -Dweblogic.security.SSL.ignoreHostnameVerification= true
> -Dweblogic.management.pkpassword=changeit
>
> Is there anything else I need to do?
>
> Thanks for any help!