ColdFusion CFHTTP I/O Exception: peer not authenti

Question

I'm currently working with a payment processor. I can browse to the payment URL from our server, so it's not a firewall issue, but when I try to use CFHTTP I get a I/O Exception: peer not authenticated. I've downloaded and installed their latest security cert into cacerts keystore and restarted CF and am still getting the same error. Not only have I installed the providers cert, but also the 2 other Verisign certificate authority certs in the certificate chain. The cert is one of the newer Class 3 Extended Validation certs.

Has anybody come across this before and found a solution?

Answer 1

I am using JRun. After trying a lot of different things I came across a snippet of information that was applicable in my setup. I had configured an (1)HTTPS SSLService with my own truststore file. This caused the piece of information in the following link to become important.

http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/import-certificates-certificate-stores-coldfusion.html

Note: If you are using JRun as the underlying J2EE server (either the Server Configuration or the Multiserver/J2EE with JRun Configuration) and have enabled SSL for the internal JRun Web server (JWS), you will need to import the certificate to the truststore defined in the jrun.xml file for the Secure JWS rather than the JRE key store. By default, the file is called "trustStore" and is typically located under jrun_root/lib for the Multiserver/J2EE with JRun configuration or cf_root/runtime/lib for the ColdFusion Server configuration. You use the same Java keytool to manage the trustStore.

Here is the excerpt from my jrun.xml file:

<service class="jrun.servlet.http.SSLService" name="SSLService">
  <attribute name="port">8301</attribute>
  <attribute name="keyStore">/app/jrun4/cert/cfusion.jks</attribute>
  <attribute name="trustStore">/app/jrun4/cert/truststore.jks</attribute>
  <attribute name="name">SSLService</attribute>
  <attribute name="bindAddress">*</attribute>
  <attribute name="socketFactoryName">jrun.servlet.http.JRunSSLServerSocketFactory</attribute>
  <attribute name="interface">*</attribute>
  <attribute name="keyStorePassword">cfadmin</attribute>
  <attribute name="deactivated">false</attribute>
</service>

Once I imported the certificate into this truststore (/app/jrun4/cert/truststore.jks) it worked after restarting ColdFusion.

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(1) http://helpx.adobe.com/legacy/kb/ssl-jrun-web-server-connector.html