CertificateDecodeException: Boolean must be either 0xff or 0

Question

Hello,

I am testing the edtFTPj/PRO Trial version for TLS connections to Mainframe servers.

So far the configuration was easy, but testing the connection brings an error message where I had to abandon my attempt to get it run:

com.enterprisedt.net.puretls.SSLHandshakeFailedException: com.enterprisedt.net.puretls.cert.CertificateDecodeException: java.io.IOException: Boolean must be either 0xff or 0

I googled for the exception but got no good hits for an explanation, do have any ideas?

Thanks
Stefan

Answer 1

Could you create a log file, zip it up and email it to us?

Enable logging by:

Logger.setLevel(Level.ALL);
Logger.addAppender(new FileAppender("mylog.txt"));

Set the system properties as below:

edtftp.log.puretls.level=65535

If you also are able to get a copy of the certificate and email it that would be very useful.