"Certificate chain path length exceeded" When Invoking HTTPS Webservice

(Doc ID 1382106.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 03, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Service Bus - Version 11.1.1.3.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

In an Oracle Service Bus (OSB) domain, when trying to contact an HTTPS webservice and after importing the server certificate into the OSB trust store, the following warning shows up in the log file while testing the service:

####<Sep 16, 2011 8:00:42 AM CDT> <Warning> <Security> <auohssvmr02> <osb_server1> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: '7' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'> <> <> <21679c7c9767b055:-721ecf5a:132628a3671:-7ffe-0000000000006fdb> <1316178042747> <BEA-090550> <The certificate chain received from "hostname" - 192.168.0.1 contained a V3 CA certificate which indicated a certificate chain path length in the basic constraints that was exceeded.>


This issue has also been  described from Weblogic Server perspective in note 1231141.1

Cause

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