How to create an SSL connection using the Smack XMPP library?

Question

I\'m building a small program that acts as an XMPP client and I am using the Smack library. Now, the server I am connecting to requires SSL (in Pidgin I have to check \"Forc

Answer 1

Yes, it's quite easy to achieve. Take a look at the ConnectionConfiguration class, and in particular the setSecurityMode method which accepts a ConnectionConfiguration.SecurityMode enum as a parameter. Setting this to "required" forces Smack to use TLS.

from the Javadoc:

Securirty via TLS encryption is required in order to connect. If the server does not offer TLS or if the TLS negotiaton fails, the connection to the server will fail.