Reusing a Java REST client as an RTC service. Unable to login in RTC from an RTC service

Hi! I'm trying to login to my local RTC server with help of some legacy code that is said to work fine, but I receive the javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: handshake_failure all the time.

The trick is that I am trying to write a wrapper plugin for RTC web interface that would proxy calls from WebUI to a REST client implementation that was used to work with repository via REST from a remote client. So I wrote a MODELLED_REST service plugin and embedded the legacy code in it. It compiles and runs, but when the legacy method tries to login, it gets a handshake_failure error. Is what I am doing possible at all? I'll be grateful for any hints on this.

Is there a smarter way to reuse the legacy code? This restClient has a lot of logic in it and I'd like to make as much use of it as possible.

UPD: When I try to login from my service running on Jetty to a different instance of RTC running on Tomcat it works fine with Scheme set on port 443. The login URL I use there is https://127.0.0.1:9443/ccm/authenticated/identity. But Jetty doesn't have this kind of a link and uses https://127.0.0.1:7443/jazz/.. to address everything. So the URL for Jetty is https://127.0.0.1:7443/jazz/authenticated/identity

Here is the code that is used to login (the bold line is the one where the Exception is thrown):

public boolean loginRTC() {
HttpResponse response;
  logger.info("trying to log in");
try {
httpClient = getHttpClient();

logger.info("getting cookies");
cookieStore = new BasicCookieStore();
localContext = new BasicHttpContext();
localContext.setAttribute(ClientContext.COOKIE_STORE, cookieStore);

//this link in browser redirects me to the login page
HttpGet httpGetID = new HttpGet("https://127.0.0.1:7443/jazz/authenticated/identity"); 
response = httpClient.execute(httpGetID, localContext);
logger.info(response.getStatusLine().toString());
httpGetID.abort();

logger.info("cookies:");
List<Cookie> cookies1 = cookieStore.getCookies();
for (Cookie cookie : cookies1) {
logger.info("\t" + cookie.getName() + " : " + cookie.getValue());
}

logger.info("send username and password");
List<NameValuePair> authFormParams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
  authFormParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("j_username", "ADMIN"));
  authFormParams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("j_password", "ADMIN"));
UrlEncodedFormEntity entity;
entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(authFormParams, "UTF-8");
HttpPost httpPostAuth = new HttpPost(rtcUrl + LOGIN_CHECK_URL);
httpPostAuth.setEntity(entity);
response = httpClient.execute(httpPostAuth, localContext);
logger.info(response.getStatusLine().toString());
httpPostAuth.abort();

// retrieve new cookies
HttpGet httpGetCookie = new HttpGet(rtcUrl + LOGIN_FORM_URL);
response = httpClient.execute(httpGetCookie, localContext);
logger.info(response.getStatusLine().toString());
httpGetCookie.abort();

if (checkAuthorized()) {
logger.info("login SUCCESSFUL");
return true;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
logger.error(e.getMessage(), e);
}
logger.info("login FAILED");
return false;
}

and getHttpClient is as follows:

private HttpClient getHttpClient() throws RequestException {
try {
SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(
new TrustStrategy() {
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
}, SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
Scheme sch = new Scheme("https", 443, socketFactory);

ThreadSafeClientConnManager cm = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager();
cm.setMaxTotal(MAX_CONNECTION_COUNT);
HttpClient result = new DefaultHttpClient(cm);
result.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry().register(sch);
return result;
} catch (Exception e) {
String msg = "Couldn't set SSL trust strategy: " + e.getMessage();
logger.error(msg, e);
throw new RequestException(msg);
}
}