How to disable SSL certificate checking with Spring RestTemplate?

Question

I am trying to write an integration test where our test launches an embedded HTTPS server using Simple. I created a self-signed certificate using keytool and am able to acce

Answer 1

@Bean(name = "restTemplateByPassSSL")
public RestTemplate restTemplateByPassSSL()
        throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
    TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) -> true;
    HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = (s, sslSession) -> true;
    SSLContext sslContext = SSLContexts.custom().loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy).build();
    SSLConnectionSocketFactory csf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, hostnameVerifier);
    CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(csf).build();
    HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
    requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);

    return new RestTemplate(requestFactory);
}