Disabling SSL Certificate Validation in Spring RestTemplate

Question

I am having two Spring based web apps A and B, on two different machines.

I want to make a https call from web app A to web app B, however I am using a self-signed c

Answer 1

You can use this with HTTPClient API.

public RestTemplate getRestTemplateBypassingHostNameVerifcation() {
    CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLHostnameVerifier(new NoopHostnameVerifier()).build();
    HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
    requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
    return new RestTemplate(requestFactory);

}