Accept server's self-signed ssl certificate in Java client

Question

It looks like a standard question, but I couldn\'t find clear directions anywhere.

I have java code trying to connect to a server with probably self-signed (or expir

Answer 1

I had the issue that I was passing a URL into a library which was calling url.openConnection(); I adapted jon-daniel's answer,

public class TrustHostUrlStreamHandler extends URLStreamHandler {

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(TrustHostUrlStreamHandler.class);

    @Override
    protected URLConnection openConnection(final URL url) throws IOException {

        final URLConnection urlConnection = new URL(url.getProtocol(), url.getHost(), url.getPort(), url.getFile()).openConnection();

        // adapated from
        // https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2893819/accept-servers-self-signed-ssl-certificate-in-java-client
        if (urlConnection instanceof HttpsURLConnection) {
            final HttpsURLConnection conHttps = (HttpsURLConnection) urlConnection;

            try {
                // Set up a Trust all manager
                final TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {

                    @Override
                    public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                        return null;
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void checkClientTrusted(final java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, final String authType) {
                    }

                    @Override
                    public void checkServerTrusted(final java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, final String authType) {
                    }
                } };

                // Get a new SSL context
                final SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLSv1.2");
                sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
                // Set our connection to use this SSL context, with the "Trust all" manager in place.
                conHttps.setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
                // Also force it to trust all hosts
                final HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new HostnameVerifier() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean verify(final String hostname, final SSLSession session) {
                        return true;
                    }
                };

                // and set the hostname verifier.
                conHttps.setHostnameVerifier(allHostsValid);

            } catch (final NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
                LOG.warn("Failed to override URLConnection.", e);
            } catch (final KeyManagementException e) {
                LOG.warn("Failed to override URLConnection.", e);
            }

        } else {
            LOG.warn("Failed to override URLConnection. Incorrect type: {}", urlConnection.getClass().getName());
        }

        return urlConnection;
    }

}

Using this class it is possible to create a new URL with:

trustedUrl = new URL(new URL(originalUrl), "", new TrustHostUrlStreamHandler());
trustedUrl.openConnection();

This has the advantage that it is localized and not replacing the default URL.openConnection.