Trust Anchor not found for Android SSL Connection

Question

I am trying to connect to an IIS6 box running a godaddy 256bit SSL cert, and I am getting the error :

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust an         


        

Answer 1

You can trust particular certificate at runtime.
Just download it from server, put in assets and load like this using ssl-utils-android:

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
SSLContext sslContext = SslUtils.getSslContextForCertificateFile(context, "BPClass2RootCA-sha2.cer");
client.setSslSocketFactory(sslContext.getSocketFactory());

In the example above I used OkHttpClient but SSLContext can be used with any client in Java.

If you have any questions feel free to ask. I'm the author of this small library.