openjdk-7 SSL "illegal parameter"

[G.M.]

Compiling to following code (simple access to an https site using URL) results in SSLException in openjdk-7, whereas it works perfectly with openjdk-6.

(Please note that latest ubuntu's wget returns a core dumps on this same site and openssl returns the same error. However, exact same configuration with different java versions have different behaviours!).

import java.net.*;

public class CheckSSL3 {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
    String urlString = "https://web-ast.dsi.cnrs.fr/l3c/owa/personnel.infos_admin?p_numero_sel=1120824";
    URL url = new URL(urlString);
    url.openStream();
 }
}

root@plop:/root# update-java-alternatives -s java-1.6.0-openjdk-amd64
plip@plop:CheckSSL$ java -cp classes/ CheckSSL3
plip@plop:CheckSSL$

root@plop:/root# update-java-alternatives -s java-1.7.0-openjdk-amd64
plip@plop:CheckSSL$ java -cp classes/ CheckSSL3
plip@plop:CheckSSL$ java -cp classes/ CheckSSL3
Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: illegal_parameter
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:208)
        at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:154)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.recvAlert(SSLSocketImpl.java:1961)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1077)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1312)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1339)
        at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1323)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:515)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1299)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:254)
        at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1037)
        at CheckSSL3.main(CheckSSL3.java:7)
plip@plop:CheckSSL$

[G.M. (sexxxenator)]

Sorry just FYI:
openjdk6: 6b27-1.12.3-0ubuntu1~12.10.1
openjdk7: 7u15-2.3.7-0ubuntu1~12.10.1