How to connect to a secure website using SSL in Java with a pkcs12 file?

Question

I have a pkcs12 file. I need to use this to connect to a webpage using https protocol. I came across some code where in order to connect to a secure web page i need to set t

Answer 1

I cannot comment because of the 50pts threshhold, but I don't think that the answer provided in https://stackoverflow.com/a/537344/1341220 is correct. What you are actually describing is how you insert server certificates into the systems default truststore:

$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts, password: changeit)

This works, indeed, but it means that you did not really specify a trust store local to your project, but rather accepted the certificate universially in your system.

You actually never use your own truststore that you defined here:

System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "myTrustStore");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "changeit");