Question

Hello I am trying to send a push message to my device using Java. But I’am allready getting problems when establishing the ssl connection.
Here is the code so far:

        KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS12");

        InputStream key = getClass().getResourceAsStream("apns-dev-key.p12");
        char[] c = key.toString().toCharArray();

        keyStore.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("apns-dev-cert.p12"), c);
        KeyManagerFactory keyMgrFactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");
        keyMgrFactory.init(keyStore, c);

        SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
        sslContext.init(keyMgrFactory.getKeyManagers(), null, null);
        SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = sslContext.getSocketFactory();

        SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) sslSocketFactory.createSocket(host, port);
        String[] cipherSuites = sslSocket.getSupportedCipherSuites();
        sslSocket.setEnabledCipherSuites(cipherSuites);
        sslSocket.startHandshake();

The error I am getting is:

java.io.IOException: failed to decrypt safe contents entry: javax.crypto.BadPaddingException: Given final block not properly padded

I guess there is some problem with the apns-dev-key.p12 file. Any hints?

The code above is taken from: http://undermypalapa.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/apple-push-notification-service-java/

Answer 1

Here my working example:

private String token = "<token>";
private String host = "gateway.sandbox.push.apple.com";
private int port = 2195;

private String payload = "{\"aps\":{\"alert\":\"Message from Java o_O\"}}";

public APNSender() {
    try {
        KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance("PKCS12");

        keyStore.load(getClass().getResourceAsStream("cert.p12"), "<password>".toCharArray());
        KeyManagerFactory keyMgrFactory = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("SunX509");
        keyMgrFactory.init(keyStore, "<password>".toCharArray());

        SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
        sslContext.init(keyMgrFactory.getKeyManagers(), null, null);
        SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = sslContext.getSocketFactory();

        SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) sslSocketFactory.createSocket(host, port);
        String[] cipherSuites = sslSocket.getSupportedCipherSuites();
        sslSocket.setEnabledCipherSuites(cipherSuites);
        sslSocket.startHandshake();

        char[] t = token.toCharArray();
        byte[] b = Hex.decodeHex(t);

        OutputStream outputstream = sslSocket.getOutputStream();

        outputstream.write(0);
        outputstream.write(0);
        outputstream.write(32);
        outputstream.write(b);
        outputstream.write(0);
        outputstream.write(payload.length());
        outputstream.write(payload.getBytes());

        outputstream.flush();
        outputstream.close();

    } catch (Exception exception) {
        exception.printStackTrace();
    }
}

What I’m still curious about is how to receive error codes. I tried it with

InputStream in = sslSocket.getInputStream(); 
[...]   

but no success.

The Apple docs say that there is no answer send when no errors occured but on the other hand they list a status code for “No errors encountered”.