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NullPointerException for SSL Connection on Android #413

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@tobiasrohloff

Hi,

I'm using the WebSocketClient in an Android app and I receive the following NullPointerException from some users:

java.lang.NullPointerException: ssl == null
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.NativeCrypto.SSL_read_BIO(Native Method)
	at com.android.org.conscrypt.OpenSSLEngineImpl.unwrap(OpenSSLEngineImpl.java:477)
	at javax.net.ssl.SSLEngine.unwrap(SSLEngine.java:1014)
	at org.java_websocket.SSLSocketChannel2.unwrap(SSLSocketChannel2.java:150)
	at org.java_websocket.SSLSocketChannel2.processHandshake(SSLSocketChannel2.java:123)
	at org.java_websocket.SSLSocketChannel2.write(SSLSocketChannel2.java:192)
	at org.java_websocket.SocketChannelIOHelper.writeBlocking(SocketChannelIOHelper.java:76)
	at org.java_websocket.client.WebSocketClient$WebsocketWriteThread.run(WebSocketClient.java:440)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

The exception was thrown on different devices and different versions of Android. I use the following configuration to initiate the secured WebSocket connection:

webSocketClient = new WebSocketClient(uri, new Draft_10(), headers, 0) {
    ...
}

try {
    SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
    sc.init(null, null, null);
    webSocketClient.setWebSocketFactory(new DefaultSSLWebSocketClientFactory(sc));
    webSocketClient.connect();
} catch (Exception e) {
    ...
}

I couldn't reproduce the issue on my debug devices. Any idea how I can avoid this or why it crashes sometimes? Can I catch the exception somehow? Looks like it is deeply nested in the library or Android itself.

Thanks

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