Java - Apache HttpClient to access the self signed certification and no host verification
Below code comes from https://memorynotfound.com/ignore-certificate-errors-apache-httpclient/
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package com.memorynotfound.httpclient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.*;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
/**
* This example demonstrates how to ignore certificate errors.
* These errors include self signed certificate errors and hostname verification errors.
*/
public class HttpClientAcceptSelfSignedCertificate {
public static void main(String... args) {
try (CloseableHttpClient httpclient = createAcceptSelfSignedCertificateClient()) {
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://example.com");
System.out.println("Executing request " + httpget.getRequestLine());
httpclient.execute(httpget);
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException | KeyStoreException | KeyManagementException | IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
private static CloseableHttpClient createAcceptSelfSignedCertificateClient()
throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyStoreException {
// use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy to allow Self Signed Certificates
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContextBuilder
.create()
.loadTrustMaterial(new TrustSelfSignedStrategy())
.build();
// we can optionally disable hostname verification.
// if you don't want to further weaken the security, you don't have to include this.
HostnameVerifier allowAllHosts = new NoopHostnameVerifier();
// create an SSL Socket Factory to use the SSLContext with the trust self signed certificate strategy
// and allow all hosts verifier.
SSLConnectionSocketFactory connectionFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, allowAllHosts);
// finally create the HttpClient using HttpClient factory methods and assign the ssl socket factory
return HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(connectionFactory)
.build();
}
}