Re: Upgrading test code from tomcat 9 to 11

Thanks Mark!

The fix was this
Connector.setProperty("SSLEnabled","true");

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 4:00 AM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 22/10/2025 01:20, Alex O'Ree wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I'm attempting to update some unit test code from JDK11/Tomcat9 to
> > JDK17/Tomcat11 that I have. It previously programmatically constructs a
> > Tomcat instance and 3 Connectors, one for http clear, https and https
> with
> > client cert, then attaches a servlet.
> >
> > I was able to get the http instance to fire up but i'm struggling a bit
> > with getting the https and https with client cert to fire up due to the
> api
> > changes with the SSLHostConfig object. I'm also using a JKS key store
> that
> > contains the key for tomcat and a separate JKS trust store.
> >
> > I think I figured out the SSL api change and can get tomcat to run,
> however
> > i'm getting the following error and I'm not sure how to interpret this.
> >
> > Error parsing HTTP request header. IllegalArgumentException: Invalid
> > character found in method name [ long string of hexadecimal characters
> here
> > ]. HTTP Method names must be tokens.
>
> That sounds like a TLS request being made to an HTTP connector.
>
> > I'm pretty sure this happens when i'm trying to trigger the servlet over
> > https or via the client cert auth but I have no clue as to why I'm
> getting
> > this error. Could this be a configuration or classpath issue? I'm 100% on
> > jakarta with no javax libraries being imported.
>
> Tomcat has quite a few TLS related unit tests. You might find some
> useful hints in those.
> Mark
>
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