Spring Boot SSL Client

Question

I am new to Spring Boot. So far I am enjoying it. I have developed a demo SSL rest web server that correctly handles mutual X.509 certificate authentication. Using an IE

Answer 1

This worked for me :

TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) -> true;
javax.net.ssl.SSLContext sslContext = org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts.custom()
        .loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory csf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext);
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(csf).build();
HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(requestFactory);