sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection Error in Git repositories

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Problem

After being updated to Bamboo 5.8.1 this error is being thrown on an attempted connection to Stash:

  1. Git checkouts fail for builds.
  2. Git commits fail to trigger builds.

The following appears in the atlassian-bamboo.log

com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectChangesSinceLastBuildInternal(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:398)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectChangesSinceRevisions(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:286)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectChangesSinceRevisions(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:185)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectAllChangesSinceLastBuild(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:142)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.ManualBuildDetectionAction.performDelayedChangeDetection(ManualBuildDetectionAction.java:172)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.chains.ChainExecutionManagerImpl$2.getChainState(ChainExecutionManagerImpl.java:224)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.chains.ChainExecutionManagerImpl.tryStartChainState(ChainExecutionManagerImpl.java:277)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.chains.ChainExecutionManagerImpl.delayedStart(ChainExecutionManagerImpl.java:213)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
	at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:317)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:190)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:157)
	at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:92)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
	at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:207)
	at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy124.delayedStart(Unknown Source)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl$2$1$1$1.run(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:430)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.util.CacheAwareness.whileReadingThroughCaches(CacheAwareness.java:85)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.util.CacheAwareness.whileReadingThroughCaches(CacheAwareness.java:102)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl$2$1$1.call(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:425)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl$2$1$1.call(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:417)
	at com.atlassian.util.concurrent.ManagedLocks$ManagedLockImpl.withLock(ManagedLocks.java:312)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionLockServiceImpl.lock(PlanExecutionLockServiceImpl.java:85)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl.doWithProcessLock(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:805)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl.access$300(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:128)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plan.PlanExecutionManagerImpl$2$1.run(PlanExecutionManagerImpl.java:411)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:49)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:31)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:20)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:52)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:132)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.runTask(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:88)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:191)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.retry(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:176)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectionChangesWithRetry(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:501)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager.collectChangesSinceLastBuildInternal(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:358)
	... 33 more
Caused by: com.atlassian.bamboo.repository.RepositoryException: sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository.collectChangesSinceLastBuild(GitRepository.java:342)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository.collectChangesSinceLastBuild(GitRepository.java:214)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager$2.call(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:506)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.trigger.DefaultChangeDetectionManager$2.call(DefaultChangeDetectionManager.java:502)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.executor.RetryingTaskExecutor.rerun(RetryingTaskExecutor.java:108)
	... 38 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection cannot be cast to javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.http.JDKHttpConnection.configure(JDKHttpConnection.java:191)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.jgit.transport.http.AllTrustingHttpConnectionFactory.customizeConnection(AllTrustingHttpConnectionFactory.java:74)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.jgit.transport.http.AllTrustingHttpConnectionFactory.create(AllTrustingHttpConnectionFactory.java:65)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportHttp.httpOpen(TransportHttp.java:544)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportHttp.httpOpen(TransportHttp.java:529)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportHttp.connect(TransportHttp.java:468)
	at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportHttp.openFetch(TransportHttp.java:309)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.withFetchConnection(JGitOperationHelper.java:928)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.obtainLatestRevision(JGitOperationHelper.java:439)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.access$100(JGitOperationHelper.java:71)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper$4.doWithRepository(JGitOperationHelper.java:425)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper$4.doWithRepository(JGitOperationHelper.java:420)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.withRepository(JGitOperationHelper.java:878)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.JGitOperationHelper.obtainLatestRevision(JGitOperationHelper.java:420)
	at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.git.GitRepository.collectChangesSinceLastBuild(GitRepository.java:226)
	... 42 more

Cause

Occurs when native JGit is in use.

 

Workaround

This issue is related with the native git installation (Jgit) used by default by Bamboo.

To workaround this, install your own version of Git on the Bamboo server and define this Git binary in Bamboo as a capability.

This should get Bamboo off the bundled jgit version and resolve the issue.

Resolution


Please follow the issue below for a final resolution:


 

Last modified on Nov 2, 2018

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