RE: [Handle-info] Problems Creating Handles Programmatically from Web Services

["Nick Fischio" <nicholas.fischio@case.edu>]

Sean,

We are using Java version 1.5.0_08.

Nick 

Nicholas Fischio
Development Manager
Kelvin Smith Library - Case Western Reserve University
216.368.3509
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Reilly [mailto:sreilly@cnri.reston.va.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:43 PM
To: Nick Fischio
Subject: Re: [Handle-info] Problems Creating Handles Programmatically from Web Services


Are they also using the same private key file?  A different version  
of Java could also be causing (or revealing) the problem.

Thanks,
Sean

On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Nick Fischio wrote:

> Sean,
>
> Thanks for the input.  I am double-checking everything, but I'm  
> pretty sure everything (command line & Web service) are using v6.2  
> of the handle.jar (dated 7/5/06).  I will keep looking though.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas Fischio
> Development Manager
> Kelvin Smith Library - Case Western Reserve University
> 216.368.3509
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Reilly [mailto:sreilly@cnri.reston.va.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: Nick Fischio
> Cc: handle-info@cnri.reston.va.us
> Subject: Re: [Handle-info] Problems Creating Handles  
> Programmatically from Web Services
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> I think this is caused by having an old version of the handle.jar
> somewhere in your classpath.  Before a certain point the
> authentication code just used the signature algorithm provided by the
> public key instead of assigning constant values specific to the
> signature format that we use.  This caused the older handle.jars to
> return the error you are seeing when run on newer versions of java.
>
> I would check that both your command-line and web service classpaths
> both have the latest handle.jar file.  Also, if the command-line and
> web service might be talking to different servers then make sure that
> the server the web service is talking to has an updated handle.jar.
>
> I think this problem was fixed over a year ago, but it is difficult
> keeping everything up to date!
>
> Thanks,
> Sean
>
> On Feb 7, 2007, at 8:01 PM, Nick Fischio wrote:
>
>> I would like some help troubleshooting a "problem" we are
>> experiencing with the client library.  We have written code modeled
>> after the HDLCreate.java source file that comes with the
>> distribution (v 6.2).  The code works fine when we call it from the
>> command line (Windows), however it fails when we execute the same
>> code from a Web service via Apache Axis.
>>
>> When we attempt to execute this code from our Web service, we
>> receive the following message:
>>
>> "HandleException (UNABLE_TO_AUTHENTICATE) Unable to sign challenge:
>> HandleException (MISSING_OR_INVALID_SIGNATURE) Unknown signature
>> algorithm: DSA"
>>
>> Nick
>


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