Error When Launchng P6 Progress Reporter: "java.io.IOException: Server Returned HTTP Response Code: 500 for URL:http://p...:8280/timesheet.jnlp Unable to Launch the Application"

Last updated on MARCH 21, 2018

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Symptoms

When attempting to launch P6 Progress Reporter, the following error occurs:

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500 for URL:http://p...:8280/timesheet.jnlp
Unable to launch the application

In addition, the following error can be found in the server.log file:

<TIMESTAMP>,300 WARNING [com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel] (main) TDSChannel ( ConnectionID:1 TransactionID:0x0000000000000000) SSL handshake failed: The TDS protocol stream is not valid.
<TIMESTAMP>,315 WARNING [com.primavera.pr.infr.ConfigurationAccessor] (main) Unable to determine database platform
com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerException: The driver could not establish a secure connection to SQL Server by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption. Error: The TDS protocol stream is not valid..
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.terminate(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.throwSSLConnectionFailed(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.TDSChannel.enableSSL(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connectHelper(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.loginWithoutFailover(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
at com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:582)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:154)
at org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource.getConnectionFromDriverManager(DriverManagerDataSource.java:174)

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Launch Progress Reporter.
2. Observe the error reported in the pop-up window, as detailed above.
3. Observe the error reported in the server.log, as detailed above.

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