# SOAP WS without SSL shows Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection

**URL:** <https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243>\
**Category:** API Testing\
**Tags:** api-testing, katalon-studio\
**Created:** [April 12, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243 "2018-04-12T07:57:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://forum.katalon.com/u/ASD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 7:57am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/1 "2018-04-12T07:57:04Z")

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I am trying to create a SOAP request, which is not HTTPS. I have selected SOAP and on Test Request am getting the following error. Please let me know how to fix this?

Unable to send request (Root cause: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection?)

at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.stepFailed(KeywordMain.groovy:36)

at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.stepFailed(KeywordMain.groovy)

at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordMain.runKeyword(KeywordMain.groovy:56)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.builtin.SendRequestKeyword.sendRequest(SendRequestKeyword.groovy:43)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.builtin.SendRequestKeyword.execute(SendRequestKeyword.groovy:38)

at com.kms.katalon.core.keyword.internal.KeywordExecutor.executeKeywordForPlatform(KeywordExecutor.groovy:53)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.WSBuiltInKeywords.sendRequest(WSBuiltInKeywords.groovy:40)

at com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.WSBuiltInKeywords$sendRequest.call(Unknown Source)

at Script1523448056705.run(Script1523448056705.groovy:35)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.run(ScriptEngine.java:183)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.ScriptEngine.runScriptAsRawText(ScriptEngine.java:108)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.runScript(TestCaseExecutor.java:291)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.doExecute(TestCaseExecutor.java:282)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.processExecutionPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:261)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.accessMainPhase(TestCaseExecutor.java:253)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor.execute(TestCaseExecutor.java:201)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain.runTestCase(TestCaseMain.java:74)

at com.kms.katalon.core.main.TestCaseMain$runTestCase$0.call(Unknown Source)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:48)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:113)

at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:141)

at TempTestCase1523519683447.run(TempTestCase1523519683447.groovy:21)

at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.runScriptOrMainOrTestOrRunnable(GroovyShell.java:263)

at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.run(GroovyShell.java:518)

at groovy.lang.GroovyShell.run(GroovyShell.java:507)

at groovy.ui.GroovyMain.processOnce(GroovyMain.java:653)

at groovy.ui.GroovyMain.run(GroovyMain.java:384)

at groovy.ui.GroovyMain.process(GroovyMain.java:370)

at groovy.ui.GroovyMain.processArgs(GroovyMain.java:129)

at groovy.ui.GroovyMain.main(GroovyMain.java:109)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)

at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter.rootLoader(GroovyStarter.java:109)

at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.GroovyStarter.main(GroovyStarter.java:131)

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**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://forum.katalon.com/u/ASD)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2018, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/2 "2018-04-12T12:28:55Z")

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Please find the attached Image. Please help ![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/xv/d10vmno199gg.png "Image: https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/xv/d10vmno199gg.png")

[Katalon\_Bug.png](https://s3.amazonaws.com/katalon-forum/editor/xv/d10vmno199gg.png)

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**Author:** ![Trong\_Bui](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/trong_bui/32/374_2.png) [@Trong\_Bui](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Trong_Bui)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/3 "2018-04-13T03:10:30Z")

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I found some solution for the issue here [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6532273/unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection-exception](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6532273/unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection-exception).  
Could you please double check to ensure all the info are correct?

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**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://forum.katalon.com/u/ASD)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2018, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/4 "2018-04-13T04:14:52Z")

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> Trong Bui said:
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> I found some solution for the issue here [java - Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection? Exception - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6532273/unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection-exception).  
> Could you please double check to ensure all the info are correct?

Thank you Trong. But the information is correct. I might try setting up -Dhttps.protocols=“TLSv1” and will try

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**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://forum.katalon.com/u/ASD)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 4:53am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/5 "2018-04-20T04:53:27Z")

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Does anyone have solution for this? I even tried the 5.4 version and still its the same. Any tutorial of guidelines i could use?

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**Author:** ![Zarashima](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/katalon/user_avatar/forum.katalon.com/zarashima/32/928_2.png) [@Zarashima](https://forum.katalon.com/u/Zarashima)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/6 "2018-04-24T08:15:11Z")

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Is there any proxy configuration from your side?

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**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://forum.katalon.com/u/ASD)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2018, 6:16am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/7 "2018-04-30T06:16:17Z")

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> [Vinh Nguyen](https://forum.katalon.com/profile/33/Vinh%20Nguyen) said:
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> Is there any proxy configuration from your side?

None!!!

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**Author:** ![rahul.arora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e47c2d/32.png) [@rahul.arora](https://forum.katalon.com/u/rahul.arora)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2019, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.katalon.com/t/soap-ws-without-ssl-shows-unrecognized-ssl-message-plaintext-connection/10243/8 "2019-01-02T10:54:08Z")

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Hi @ASD

Can you please help me in this as i am also facing same issue while running my Rest API .  
Please let me what i need to do so that it can run properly and i get the response .
