how to make HTTPS calls using AsyncHttpClient?

Question

i was using AsyncHttpClient link for making http calls but now our server has migrated to HTTPS and I am getting exception javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverified

Answer 1

I have a simple http client that calls https service:

import android.util.Log;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.auth.AuthScope;
import org.apache.http.auth.UsernamePasswordCredentials;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;

/**
 */
public class HttpSimpleClient {

    private static final String TAG = HttpSimpleClient.class.getSimpleName();

    private static HttpSimpleClient instance;

    private HttpSimpleClient(){}

    public static HttpSimpleClient instance(){
        if (instance==null) {
            instance = new HttpSimpleClient();
        }
        return instance;
    }

    public  T post(URL url,
                      List header,
                      List parameter,
                      ResponseHandler responseHandler) throws IOException {
        return post(url, header, parameter, responseHandler, null, null);
    }

    public  T post(URL url,
                     List header,
                     List parameter,
                     ResponseHandler responseHandler,
                     AuthScope proxy,
                     UsernamePasswordCredentials proxyUser) throws IOException {
        HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
        HttpPost request = new HttpPost(url.toString());

        if (header!=null) {
            for (NameValuePair head : header){
                request.setHeader(head.getName(), head.getValue());
            }
            Log.d(TAG, "Aggiunti header: "+ header.size());

        } else {
            // Header di default
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            request.setHeader("User-Agent", System.getProperty("http.agent"));
            Log.d(TAG, "Aggiunti header di defautl");
        }

        if (parameter!=null) {
            request.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(parameter, HTTP.UTF_8));
            Log.d(TAG, "Aggiunti parametri: "+ parameter.size());
        }


        if (proxy!=null) {
            if (proxyUser!=null) {
                ((AbstractHttpClient) httpClient).getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(proxy, proxyUser);

            } else {
                // TODO gestire proxy senza credenziali
                ((AbstractHttpClient) httpClient).getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(proxy, null);

            }
            Log.d(TAG, "Impostato Proxy per la connessione");
        }
        return httpClient.execute(request, responseHandler);
    }


    public static String httpResponseToString(HttpResponse httpResponse, int bufferSize) throws IOException {
        InputStream content = httpResponse.getEntity().getContent();

        int numRead;
        byte[] buffer = new byte[bufferSize];
        ByteArrayOutputStream outString = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try{
            while ((numRead = content.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                outString.write(buffer, 0, numRead);
            }
        } finally {
            content.close();
        }
        return new String(outString.toByteArray());
    }
}

And i use it in a AsyncTask:

response = HttpSimpleClient.instance().post(
                    getServiceURL(), // HTTPS url
                    mHeader, // List
                    mParameter, // List
                    getResponseHandler() // org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler
            );

Tested on Android api>=10