How to generate a "CertPath"?

From: somebody (some_at_body.com)
Date: 01/23/04

Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:39:12 -0500

When the generateCertPath line below is executed, I receive the
following message:

java.security.cert.CertificateException: unsupported encoding

This is a CA certificate from Verisign. What encoding should
I use?

-THanks

try {

// open an input stream to the file
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filename);

// instantiate a CertificateFactory for X.509
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");

X509Certificate cert = (X509Certificate)cf.generateCertificate(fis);

//CertPath cp = cf.generateCertPath(fis, cert.getEncoded().toString());
CertPath cp = cf.generateCertPath(fis, "PKCS7");

    }
    catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

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