Connector/J Null pointer in initializePropsFromServer

[Steve Podell]

We have been using Connector J 3.0.6 for a year or more at hundreds of customer sites and in house.

When I updated the jar to 3.0.15-ga we can still get to our external sites running MySQL 3.23.37, but at our in house server which runs MySQL 3.23.37 and MySQL 4.0.20, I get a null pointer error. Each MySQL server is running on the same Compaq Alpha on two different ports with two different sockets. This problem occurs with both MySQL 3.23.37 and MySQL 4.0.20.

Switching back to Connector J 3.0.6 with the exact same java code and everything works!

CAPI programs work fine, MySQL control center works fine.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Steve

The connection url is:
jdbc:mysql://205.111.111.1111:1032/statistics?user=iii&password=M4&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8

SQLException: Unable to connect to any hosts due to exception: java.lang.NullPointerException

** BEGIN NESTED EXCEPTION **
java.lang.NullPointerException
STACKTRACE:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.initializePropsFromServer(Connection.java:3237)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:1799)
at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.<init>(Connection.java:450)
at com.mysql.jdbc.NonRegisteringDriver.connect(NonRegisteringDriver.java:411)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:512)
at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:193)
at com.iii.MySQLConnect.openDatabase(MySQLConnect.java:124)
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