Java APNS Certificate Error with “DerInputStream.getLength(): lengthTag=109, too big.”

Question

When I try to using java APNS to send the push notification to iOS, I got this error message:

com.notnoop.exceptions.InvalidSSLConfig: java.io.IOException: D

Answer 1

I had the same problem but my solution will help you only if you are using maven.

Maven resource filtering (that let's you include variables in your resource files) can mess up your binaries - and certificates are especially sensitive to modification.

In general, binary content shouldn't be filtered. But I couldn't just simply disable resource filtering because I have some .properties files that include variables. So the solution was to exclude .p12 files from filtering.

    [...]
    
        
            src/main/resources
            true
            
                **/*.p12
            
        
        
            src/main/resources
            false
            
                **/*.p12
            
        
    
    [...]

More about maven resource filtering: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html