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

I got the same error while executing the below spring-boot + RestAssured simple test.

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import static com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured.when;
import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_OK;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class GeneratorTest {

@Test
public void generatorEndPoint() {
    when().get("https://bal-bla-bla-bla.com/generators")
            .then().statusCode(SC_OK);
    }
}

The simple fix in my case is to add 'useRelaxedHTTPSValidations()'

RestAssured.useRelaxedHTTPSValidation();

Then the test looks like

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringJUnit4ClassRunner;

import static com.jayway.restassured.RestAssured.when;
import static org.apache.http.HttpStatus.SC_OK;

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
public class GeneratorTest {

@Before
public void setUp() {
   RestAssured.useRelaxedHTTPSValidation();
}


@Test
public void generatorEndPoint() {
    when().get("https://bal-bla-bla-bla.com/generators")
            .then().statusCode(SC_OK);
    }
}