[jboss-remoting-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Created: (JBREM-972) CLONE [JBREM-971] - Enhance client-side connection error handling so certain (potentially revealing) socket-related exceptins are not discarded

[Ron Sigal (JIRA)]

CLONE [JBREM-971] - Enhance client-side connection error handling so certain (potentially revealing) socket-related exceptins are not discarded
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                 Key: JBREM-972
                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBREM-972
             Project: JBoss Remoting
          Issue Type: Feature Request
      Security Level: Public (Everyone can see)
    Affects Versions: 2.4.0.CR2
            Reporter: Ovidiu Feodorov
         Assigned To: Ovidiu Feodorov
            Priority: Minor
             Fix For: 2.4.0.GA


A SSL connection (for example) may fail due to handshake problems, but Remoting would discard the original exception and throw a different and less relevant exception, thus hiding the original cause of the error.

Example:

The server reports 

Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Socket Closed
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.setOption(Unknown Source)
        at java.net.Socket.setSoTimeout(Unknown Source)
        at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.setSoTimeout(Unknown Source)
        at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.SocketWrapper.setTimeout(SocketWrapper.java:85)
        at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ClientSocketWrapper.createStreams(ClientSocketWrapper.java:168)
        at org.jboss.remoting.transport.socket.ClientSocketWrapper.<init>(ClientSocketWrapper.java:66)

while in fact the root problem is:

14:39:38,174 ERROR [STDERR] javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: internal_error
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:190)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:136)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1657)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:932)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1096)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:623)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:59)
14:39:38,175 ERROR [STDERR]     at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)

This makes troubleshooting of a potential simple problem such a misspelled truststore file name laborious and time consuming.

The server-side code could be modified to log relevant exceptions.

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