SSL error when using REST for Jira with JDK 6 ?

[Chandan Gupta]

I am trying to use the REST services provided by JIRA. 

I am using JDK 6 and it giving me SSL exception.

It works fine with JDK 8.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Hard to say without knowing what the "ssl exception" is, but the two options that spring to my mind are

1.  You've imported a certificate it needs into the key store in JDK 8, but not done that for 6.

2.  JDK 8 does not try to use a couple of protocols that JDK 6 will use.  They were dropped because security holes were found.  If your system is working with 8, it's demanding secure protocols, but 6 may be offering the compromised ones and the server is hence refusing them.

[Chandan Gupta]

on #2 can you please tell me how we make it compatible ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

There are flags you can use to say "don't use these protocols" which would fix it.

But I would not chase that unless you know it is the problem.  What is the "ssl exception" you get and where does it happen?

[Dave Theodore [Coyote Creek Consulting]]

Does your Jira instance have a self-signed or internal CA signed SSL certificate? If you're not using a commercial SSL certificate, you will need to import the cert in to the Java keystore on your JDK6. Maybe this was done on your JDK8 and not on JDK6?

[Chandan Gupta]

I am using the Oracle JDK and not sure which certs are being used?