title: Connection refused exception in all HTTP requests in jmeter 2.11 with jdk 1.8
body: <p>I have a very plain jmeter project. I just send an <strong>HTTP GET request</strong> to my webservice wsdl file to verify if everything is working fine. However both the myinternal.server.local/ws/calc <strong>webservice request</strong> and HTTP GET to myinternal.server.local/ws/calc?wsdl fail with following exceptions;</p>
  
  <pre><code>Non HTTP response code: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException
  Non HTTP response message: Connection to https://myinternal.server.local
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am sure that webservice works because I can invoke it with via SOAP UI and IE displays the wsdl when <a href="https://myinternal.server.local/ws/calc?wsdl" rel="nofollow">https://myinternal.server.local/ws/calc?wsdl</a> is called.</p>
  
  <p>HTTP Request returns </p>
  
  <pre><code>    org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connection to https://myinternal.server.local refused
  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultClientConnectionOperator.openConnection(DefaultClientConnectionOperator.java:190)
  at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedClientConnectionImpl.open(ManagedClientConnectionImpl.java:294)
  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryConnect(DefaultRequestDirector.java:645)
  at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:480)
  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)
  at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)
  at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPHC4Impl.sample(HTTPHC4Impl.java:286)
  at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerProxy.sample(HTTPSamplerProxy.java:62)
  at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1088)
  at org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.sampler.HTTPSamplerBase.sample(HTTPSamplerBase.java:1077)
  at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.process_sampler(JMeterThread.java:428)
  at org.apache.jmeter.threads.JMeterThread.run(JMeterThread.java:256)
  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:722)
  Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: connect: Connection timed out
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When SOAP/XML-RPC Request is selected then it returns</p>
  
  <pre><code>Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: connect: Connection timed out
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am on JDK 1.8.0_20 (64-bit) with jmeter 2.11 @64 bit Windows-7</p>
  
  <p>Can you think of what the root cause can be?</p>
  
  <p>Regards,</p>