How to ignore PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException?

Question

I got the following exception when try to post a request to a http server:

Here is the code I used

URL url = new URL(
        \"https://www.abc.com\"         


        

Answer 1

FWIW, on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS installing the ca-certificates-java and the ca-certificates packages fixed this problem for me.