Ignore certificate errors when requesting a URL in Java

Question

I\'m trying to print a URL (without having a browser involved at all) but the URL is currently throwing the following:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: 
         


        

Answer 1

This is possibly because your certificate in your keystore for accessing target HTTPS URL does not match the certificate from server.

You need to import the certificate in to your JVM's keystore. Obtain keystore certificatesto access this URL and then importit into the main keystore with

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore /path/to/custom/keystore -destkeystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts

Assuming you are using Java from $JAVA_HOME