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Migration from httpclient4 to httpclient5

in our project we switched from apache httpclient 4 to httpclient 5 now we have a ssl problem in one module. The code in httpclient 4 was
private void buildHttpClient() throws MalformedURLException {
try {
URL aURL = new URL(BASE_URL);
String host = aURL.getAuthority();
SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
HostnameVerifier defaultHostnameVerifier = SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory systemSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(socketFactory, defaultHostnameVerifier);
CredentialsProvider provider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
provider.setCredentials(
new AuthScope(new HttpHost(host)),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(USER, PASSWORD));
httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(provider)
.setSSLSocketFactory(systemSocketFactory)
.build();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
throw new MalformedURLException(BASE_URL);
}
}
the new code is
private void buildClient() throws MalformedURLException {
URL aURL = new URL(BASE_URL);
String host = aURL.getAuthority();
final BasicCredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
new AuthScope(host, 443),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(USER, PASSWORD.toCharArray()));
SSLContext ctx = SSLContexts.createDefault();
final SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = SSLConnectionSocketFactoryBuilder.create()
.setSslContext(ctx)
.build();
final HttpClientConnectionManager cm = PoolingHttpClientConnectionManagerBuilder.create()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.build();
httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setConnectionManager(cm)
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
.build();
}
httpclient is CloseableHttpClient in both cases. Testin locally never got a problem but testing on the customer server shows now PKIX path building failed: com.ibm.security.cert.IBMCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
When i roll back to an old deployment it works on the server but the new one doesn't work. The keystore deployed by the customer should be correct and I don't want to use an own keystore.
Can somebody describe where I should look, or what is the problem with the ssl?

You are getting a certification error. You can add following static block in order to close SSL verification.
static {
// this part is needed cause Lebocoin has invalid SSL certificate, that
// cannot be normally processed by Java
TrustManager[] trustAllCertificates = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null; // Not relevant.
}
#Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
// Do nothing. Just allow them all.
}
#Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
// Do nothing. Just allow them all.
}
} };
HostnameVerifier trustAllHostnames = (String hostname, SSLSession session) -> true // Just
// allow
// them
// all.
;
try {
System.setProperty("jsse.enableSNIExtension", "false");
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCertificates, new SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(trustAllHostnames);
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
}
}

Connection to https server in Java vs Postman [duplicate]

How to ignore SSL certificate (trust all) for Apache HttpClient 4.3?
All the answers that I have found on SO treat previous versions, and the API changed.
Related:
How to ignore SSL certificate errors in Apache HttpClient 4.0
How to handle invalid SSL certificates with Apache HttpClient?
Need to trust all the certificates during the development using Spring
Ignore SSL Certificate Errors with Java
Edit:
It is only for test purposes. Kids, don't try it at home (or in production)

The code below works for trusting self-signed certificates. You have to use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy when creating your client:
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://some-server");
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
I did not include the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER on purpose: The point was to allow testing with self signed certificates so you don't have to acquire a proper certificate from a certification authority. You can easily create a self-signed certificate with the correct host name, so do that instead of adding the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER flag.

If you are using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager procedure above doesn't work, custom SSLContext is ignored. You have to pass socketFactoryRegistry in contructor when creating PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
SSLContextBuilder builder = SSLContexts.custom();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext sslContext = builder.build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, new X509HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public void verify(String host, SSLSocket ssl)
throws IOException {
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, X509Certificate cert)
throws SSLException {
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, String[] cns,
String[] subjectAlts) throws SSLException {
}
#Override
public boolean verify(String s, SSLSession sslSession) {
return true;
}
});
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder
.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslsf)
.build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(
socketFactoryRegistry);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setConnectionManager(cm).build();

As an addition to the answer of #mavroprovato, if you want to trust all certificates instead of just self-signed, you'd do (in the style of your code)
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy(){
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
or (direct copy-paste from my own code):
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import org.apache.http.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts;
// ...
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContexts
.custom()
//FIXME to contain real trust store
.loadTrustMaterial(new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
})
.build();
And if you want to skip hostname verification as well, you need to set
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).setSSLHostnameVerifier( NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE).build();
as well. (ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER is deprecated).
Obligatory warning: you shouldn't really do this, accepting all certificates is a bad thing. However there are some rare use cases where you want to do this.
As a note to code previously given, you'll want to close response even if httpclient.execute() throws an exception
CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
}
finally {
if (response != null) {
response.close();
}
}
Code above was tested using
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5.3</version>
</dependency>
And for the interested, here's my full test set:
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustSelfSignedStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import org.apache.http.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.junit.Test;
import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
public class TrustAllCertificatesTest {
final String expiredCertSite = "https://expired.badssl.com/";
final String selfSignedCertSite = "https://self-signed.badssl.com/";
final String wrongHostCertSite = "https://wrong.host.badssl.com/";
static final TrustStrategy trustSelfSignedStrategy = new TrustSelfSignedStrategy();
static final TrustStrategy trustAllStrategy = new TrustStrategy(){
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
};
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLHandshakeException.class)
public void testExpiredOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLPeerUnverifiedException.class)
public void testWrongHostOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(wrongHostCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testExpiredOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLPeerUnverifiedException.class)
public void testWrongHostOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(wrongHostCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
#Test
public void testExpiredOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
#Test
public void testWrongHostOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
public void doGet(String url, TrustStrategy trustStrategy, HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier) throws Exception {
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy);
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).setSSLHostnameVerifier(hostnameVerifier).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
}
public void doGet(String url, TrustStrategy trustStrategy) throws Exception {
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy);
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
}
}
(working test project in github)

One small addition to the answer by vasekt:
The provided solution with the SocketFactoryRegistry works when using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
However, connections via plain http don't work any longer then. You have to add a PlainConnectionSocketFactory for the http protocol additionally to make them work again:
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry =
RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create()
.register("https", sslsf)
.register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory()).build();

After trying various options, following configuration worked for both http and https:
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build(), SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> registry = RegistryBuilder.
<ConnectionSocketFactory> create()
.register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory())
.register("https", sslsf)
.build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(registry);
cm.setMaxTotal(2000);
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf)
.setConnectionManager(cm)
.build();
I am using http-client 4.3.3 : compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.3'

Simpler and shorter working code:
We are using HTTPClient 4.3.5 and we tried almost all solutions exist on the stackoverflow but nothing,
After thinking and figuring out the problem, we come to the following code which works perfectly,
just add it before creating HttpClient instance.
some method which you use to make post request...
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSF = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(builder.build(),
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslSF).build();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);
continue calling and using HttpPost instance in the normal form

Here's a working distillation of the above techniques, equivalent to "curl --insecure":
HttpClient getInsecureHttpClient() throws GeneralSecurityException {
TrustStrategy trustStrategy = new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) {
return true;
}
};
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = new HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
return HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy).build(),
hostnameVerifier))
.build();
}

When using http client 4.5 I had to use the javasx.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier to allow any hostname (for testing purposes). Here is what I ended up doing:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = null;
try {
SSLContextBuilder sslContextBuilder = new SSLContextBuilder();
sslContextBuilder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifierAllowAll = new HostnameVerifier()
{
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContextBuilder.build(), hostnameVerifierAllowAll);
CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
new AuthScope("192.168.30.34", 8443),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials("root", "password"));
httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
.build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://192.168.30.34:8443/axis/services/getStuff?firstResult=0&maxResults=1000");
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
int httpStatus = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
if (httpStatus >= 200 && httpStatus < 300) { [...]
} else {
throw new ClientProtocolException("Unexpected response status: " + httpStatus);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
try {
httpClient.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
logger.error("Error while closing the HTTP client: ", ex);
}
}

class ApacheHttpClient {
/***
* This is a https get request that bypasses certificate checking and hostname verifier.
* It uses basis authentication method.
* It is tested with Apache httpclient-4.4.
* It dumps the contents of a https page on the console output.
* It is very similar to http get request, but with the additional customization of
* - credential provider, and
* - SSLConnectionSocketFactory to bypass certification checking and hostname verifier.
* #param path String
* #param username String
* #param password String
* #throws IOException
*/
public void get(String path, String username, String password) throws IOException {
final CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(createCredsProvider(username, password))
.setSSLSocketFactory(createGenerousSSLSocketFactory())
.build();
final CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(new HttpGet(path));
try {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity == null)
return;
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
} finally {
response.close();
httpClient.close();
}
}
private CredentialsProvider createCredsProvider(String username, String password) {
CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
AuthScope.ANY,
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password));
return credsProvider;
}
/***
*
* #return SSLConnectionSocketFactory that bypass certificate check and bypass HostnameVerifier
*/
private SSLConnectionSocketFactory createGenerousSSLSocketFactory() {
SSLContext sslContext;
try {
sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[]{createGenerousTrustManager()}, new SecureRandom());
} catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
return new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
private X509TrustManager createGenerousTrustManager() {
return new X509TrustManager() {
#Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] cert, String s) throws CertificateException {
}
#Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] cert, String s) throws CertificateException {
}
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
}
}

If you are using HttpClient 4.5.x, your code can be similar to the following:
SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null,
TrustSelfSignedStrategy.INSTANCE).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultCookieStore(new BasicCookieStore())
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.build();

On top of PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager along with Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslFactory).build();
If you want an asynchronous httpclient using PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager the code shoudl be similar to following
SSLContextBuilder builder = SSLContexts.custom();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext sslContext = builder.build();
SchemeIOSessionStrategy sslioSessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sslContext,
new HostnameVerifier(){
#Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;// TODO as of now allow all hostnames
}
});
Registry<SchemeIOSessionStrategy> sslioSessionRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<SchemeIOSessionStrategy>create().register("https", sslioSessionStrategy).build();
PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager ncm = new PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager(new DefaultConnectingIOReactor(),sslioSessionRegistry);
CloseableHttpAsyncClient asyncHttpClient = HttpAsyncClients.custom().setConnectionManager(ncm).build();
asyncHttpClient.start();

(I would have added a comment directly to vasekt's answer but I don't have enough reputation points (not sure the logic there)
Anyway... what I wanted to say is that even if you aren't explicitly creating/asking for a PoolingConnection, doesn't mean you aren't getting one.
I was going crazy trying to figure out why the original solution didn't work for me, but I ignored vasekt's answer as it "didn't apply to my case" - wrong!
I was staring at my stack-trace when low and behold I saw a PoolingConnection in the middle of it. Bang - I tired his addition and success!! (our demo is tomorrow and I was getting desperate) :-)

Trust All Certs in Apache HTTP Client
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
}
};
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sc);
httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());

You can use following code snippet for get the HttpClient instance without ssl certification checking.
private HttpClient getSSLHttpClient() throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
LogLoader.serverLog.trace("In getSSLHttpClient()");
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
context.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslConnectionFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(context);
builder.setSSLSocketFactory(sslConnectionFactory);
PlainConnectionSocketFactory plainConnectionSocketFactory = new PlainConnectionSocketFactory();
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> registry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create()
.register("https", sslConnectionFactory).register("http", plainConnectionSocketFactory).build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager ccm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(registry);
ccm.setMaxTotal(BaseConstant.CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE);
ccm.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(BaseConstant.CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE);
builder.setConnectionManager((HttpClientConnectionManager) ccm);
builder.disableRedirectHandling();
LogLoader.serverLog.trace("Out getSSLHttpClient()");
return builder.build();
}

Slight tweak to answer from #divbyzero above to fix sonar security warnings
CloseableHttpClient getInsecureHttpClient() throws GeneralSecurityException {
TrustStrategy trustStrategy = (chain, authType) -> true;
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = (hostname, session) -> hostname.equalsIgnoreCase(session.getPeerHost());
return HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy).build(), hostnameVerifier))
.build();
}

Initially, i was able to disable for localhost using trust strategy, later i added NoopHostnameVerifier. Now it will work for both localhost and any machine name
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContextBuilder.create().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
}).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf).build();

In java 11 or later if you want to skip certificate validation just try the following its working.
For HttpClient am using java's default client with this import java.net.http.HttpClient;
static SSLContext insecureContext() {
TrustManager[] noopTrustManager = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) {}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) {}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
}
};
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("ssl");
sc.init(null, noopTrustManager, null);
return sc;
} catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
return null;
}
}
and then make you HttpClient like this
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder()
.sslContext(insecureContext())
.build();

InternalHttpClient.getParams() with UnsupportedOperationException

I wrote a JAVA crawler and try to use proxy and ignore any https certification.
But it does not work with
java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
(at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.getParams)
I searched solutions that mostly say my HttpClient's version is old, but I update to the latest version from apache website, this exception still happened.
Followed code is my crawler code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] {
new X509TrustManager() {
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {}
}
};
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
ctx.init(null, trustAllCerts, null);
LayeredConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(ctx);
CloseableHttpClient client = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory).build();
HttpHost proxy = new HttpHost("127.0.0.1", 8888,"http");
client.getParams().setParameter(ConnRoutePNames.DEFAULT_PROXY,proxy);
HttpGet request = new HttpGet("https://www.javaworld.com.tw/jute/post/view?bid=29&id=312144");
CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
String entity = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "utf-8");
System.out.println(entity);
}catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Thanks a lot for any solutions.

I had the same issue and it was because the method is deprecated and not available in latest versions.
I tried the below code and it worked for me
public static HttpClient createClient() {
try {
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.useProtocol("TLSv1.2");
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
HttpClientBuilder hcBuilder = HttpClients.custom();
HttpHost httpProxy = new HttpHost(bundle.getString("PROXY_HOST"), Integer.parseInt(bundle.getString("PROXY_PORT")));
DefaultProxyRoutePlanner routePlanner = new DefaultProxyRoutePlanner(httpProxy);
hcBuilder.setRoutePlanner(routePlanner);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = hcBuilder
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf).build();
return httpclient;
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}

Ignoring SSL certificate in Apache HttpClient 4.3

How to ignore SSL certificate (trust all) for Apache HttpClient 4.3?
All the answers that I have found on SO treat previous versions, and the API changed.
Related:
How to ignore SSL certificate errors in Apache HttpClient 4.0
How to handle invalid SSL certificates with Apache HttpClient?
Need to trust all the certificates during the development using Spring
Ignore SSL Certificate Errors with Java
Edit:
It is only for test purposes. Kids, don't try it at home (or in production)

The code below works for trusting self-signed certificates. You have to use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy when creating your client:
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://some-server");
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
I did not include the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER on purpose: The point was to allow testing with self signed certificates so you don't have to acquire a proper certificate from a certification authority. You can easily create a self-signed certificate with the correct host name, so do that instead of adding the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER flag.

If you are using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager procedure above doesn't work, custom SSLContext is ignored. You have to pass socketFactoryRegistry in contructor when creating PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
SSLContextBuilder builder = SSLContexts.custom();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext sslContext = builder.build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, new X509HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public void verify(String host, SSLSocket ssl)
throws IOException {
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, X509Certificate cert)
throws SSLException {
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, String[] cns,
String[] subjectAlts) throws SSLException {
}
#Override
public boolean verify(String s, SSLSession sslSession) {
return true;
}
});
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder
.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslsf)
.build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(
socketFactoryRegistry);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setConnectionManager(cm).build();

As an addition to the answer of #mavroprovato, if you want to trust all certificates instead of just self-signed, you'd do (in the style of your code)
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy(){
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
or (direct copy-paste from my own code):
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import org.apache.http.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts;
// ...
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContexts
.custom()
//FIXME to contain real trust store
.loadTrustMaterial(new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
})
.build();
And if you want to skip hostname verification as well, you need to set
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).setSSLHostnameVerifier( NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE).build();
as well. (ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER is deprecated).
Obligatory warning: you shouldn't really do this, accepting all certificates is a bad thing. However there are some rare use cases where you want to do this.
As a note to code previously given, you'll want to close response even if httpclient.execute() throws an exception
CloseableHttpResponse response = null;
try {
response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
}
finally {
if (response != null) {
response.close();
}
}
Code above was tested using
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5.3</version>
</dependency>
And for the interested, here's my full test set:
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustSelfSignedStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import org.apache.http.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
import org.junit.Test;
import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
public class TrustAllCertificatesTest {
final String expiredCertSite = "https://expired.badssl.com/";
final String selfSignedCertSite = "https://self-signed.badssl.com/";
final String wrongHostCertSite = "https://wrong.host.badssl.com/";
static final TrustStrategy trustSelfSignedStrategy = new TrustSelfSignedStrategy();
static final TrustStrategy trustAllStrategy = new TrustStrategy(){
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
};
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLHandshakeException.class)
public void testExpiredOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLPeerUnverifiedException.class)
public void testWrongHostOnSelfSignedUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(wrongHostCertSite, trustSelfSignedStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testExpiredOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test(expected = SSLPeerUnverifiedException.class)
public void testWrongHostOnTrustAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(wrongHostCertSite, trustAllStrategy);
}
#Test
public void testSelfSignedOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(selfSignedCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
#Test
public void testExpiredOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
#Test
public void testWrongHostOnAllowAllUsingCode() throws Exception {
doGet(expiredCertSite, trustAllStrategy, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
public void doGet(String url, TrustStrategy trustStrategy, HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier) throws Exception {
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy);
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).setSSLHostnameVerifier(hostnameVerifier).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
}
public void doGet(String url, TrustStrategy trustStrategy) throws Exception {
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy);
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build());
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
try {
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
}
}
(working test project in github)

One small addition to the answer by vasekt:
The provided solution with the SocketFactoryRegistry works when using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
However, connections via plain http don't work any longer then. You have to add a PlainConnectionSocketFactory for the http protocol additionally to make them work again:
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry =
RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create()
.register("https", sslsf)
.register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory()).build();

After trying various options, following configuration worked for both http and https:
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
builder.build(), SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> registry = RegistryBuilder.
<ConnectionSocketFactory> create()
.register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory())
.register("https", sslsf)
.build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager cm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(registry);
cm.setMaxTotal(2000);
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf)
.setConnectionManager(cm)
.build();
I am using http-client 4.3.3 : compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.3'

Simpler and shorter working code:
We are using HTTPClient 4.3.5 and we tried almost all solutions exist on the stackoverflow but nothing,
After thinking and figuring out the problem, we come to the following code which works perfectly,
just add it before creating HttpClient instance.
some method which you use to make post request...
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSF = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(builder.build(),
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslSF).build();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);
continue calling and using HttpPost instance in the normal form

Here's a working distillation of the above techniques, equivalent to "curl --insecure":
HttpClient getInsecureHttpClient() throws GeneralSecurityException {
TrustStrategy trustStrategy = new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) {
return true;
}
};
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = new HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
return HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy).build(),
hostnameVerifier))
.build();
}

When using http client 4.5 I had to use the javasx.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier to allow any hostname (for testing purposes). Here is what I ended up doing:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = null;
try {
SSLContextBuilder sslContextBuilder = new SSLContextBuilder();
sslContextBuilder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifierAllowAll = new HostnameVerifier()
{
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContextBuilder.build(), hostnameVerifierAllowAll);
CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
new AuthScope("192.168.30.34", 8443),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials("root", "password"));
httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
.build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://192.168.30.34:8443/axis/services/getStuff?firstResult=0&maxResults=1000");
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
int httpStatus = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
if (httpStatus >= 200 && httpStatus < 300) { [...]
} else {
throw new ClientProtocolException("Unexpected response status: " + httpStatus);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
try {
httpClient.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
logger.error("Error while closing the HTTP client: ", ex);
}
}

class ApacheHttpClient {
/***
* This is a https get request that bypasses certificate checking and hostname verifier.
* It uses basis authentication method.
* It is tested with Apache httpclient-4.4.
* It dumps the contents of a https page on the console output.
* It is very similar to http get request, but with the additional customization of
* - credential provider, and
* - SSLConnectionSocketFactory to bypass certification checking and hostname verifier.
* #param path String
* #param username String
* #param password String
* #throws IOException
*/
public void get(String path, String username, String password) throws IOException {
final CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(createCredsProvider(username, password))
.setSSLSocketFactory(createGenerousSSLSocketFactory())
.build();
final CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(new HttpGet(path));
try {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity == null)
return;
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
} finally {
response.close();
httpClient.close();
}
}
private CredentialsProvider createCredsProvider(String username, String password) {
CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
AuthScope.ANY,
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(username, password));
return credsProvider;
}
/***
*
* #return SSLConnectionSocketFactory that bypass certificate check and bypass HostnameVerifier
*/
private SSLConnectionSocketFactory createGenerousSSLSocketFactory() {
SSLContext sslContext;
try {
sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[]{createGenerousTrustManager()}, new SecureRandom());
} catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
return new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
}
private X509TrustManager createGenerousTrustManager() {
return new X509TrustManager() {
#Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] cert, String s) throws CertificateException {
}
#Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] cert, String s) throws CertificateException {
}
#Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
}
}

If you are using HttpClient 4.5.x, your code can be similar to the following:
SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null,
TrustSelfSignedStrategy.INSTANCE).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setDefaultCookieStore(new BasicCookieStore())
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.build();

On top of PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager along with Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslFactory).build();
If you want an asynchronous httpclient using PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager the code shoudl be similar to following
SSLContextBuilder builder = SSLContexts.custom();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext sslContext = builder.build();
SchemeIOSessionStrategy sslioSessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sslContext,
new HostnameVerifier(){
#Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;// TODO as of now allow all hostnames
}
});
Registry<SchemeIOSessionStrategy> sslioSessionRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<SchemeIOSessionStrategy>create().register("https", sslioSessionStrategy).build();
PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager ncm = new PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager(new DefaultConnectingIOReactor(),sslioSessionRegistry);
CloseableHttpAsyncClient asyncHttpClient = HttpAsyncClients.custom().setConnectionManager(ncm).build();
asyncHttpClient.start();

(I would have added a comment directly to vasekt's answer but I don't have enough reputation points (not sure the logic there)
Anyway... what I wanted to say is that even if you aren't explicitly creating/asking for a PoolingConnection, doesn't mean you aren't getting one.
I was going crazy trying to figure out why the original solution didn't work for me, but I ignored vasekt's answer as it "didn't apply to my case" - wrong!
I was staring at my stack-trace when low and behold I saw a PoolingConnection in the middle of it. Bang - I tired his addition and success!! (our demo is tomorrow and I was getting desperate) :-)

Trust All Certs in Apache HTTP Client
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
}
}
};
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sc);
httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(
sslsf).build();
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());

You can use following code snippet for get the HttpClient instance without ssl certification checking.
private HttpClient getSSLHttpClient() throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
LogLoader.serverLog.trace("In getSSLHttpClient()");
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
context.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslConnectionFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(context);
builder.setSSLSocketFactory(sslConnectionFactory);
PlainConnectionSocketFactory plainConnectionSocketFactory = new PlainConnectionSocketFactory();
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> registry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create()
.register("https", sslConnectionFactory).register("http", plainConnectionSocketFactory).build();
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager ccm = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(registry);
ccm.setMaxTotal(BaseConstant.CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE);
ccm.setDefaultMaxPerRoute(BaseConstant.CONNECTION_POOL_SIZE);
builder.setConnectionManager((HttpClientConnectionManager) ccm);
builder.disableRedirectHandling();
LogLoader.serverLog.trace("Out getSSLHttpClient()");
return builder.build();
}

Slight tweak to answer from #divbyzero above to fix sonar security warnings
CloseableHttpClient getInsecureHttpClient() throws GeneralSecurityException {
TrustStrategy trustStrategy = (chain, authType) -> true;
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = (hostname, session) -> hostname.equalsIgnoreCase(session.getPeerHost());
return HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(trustStrategy).build(), hostnameVerifier))
.build();
}

Initially, i was able to disable for localhost using trust strategy, later i added NoopHostnameVerifier. Now it will work for both localhost and any machine name
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContextBuilder.create().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
}).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslContext, NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf).build();

In java 11 or later if you want to skip certificate validation just try the following its working.
For HttpClient am using java's default client with this import java.net.http.HttpClient;
static SSLContext insecureContext() {
TrustManager[] noopTrustManager = new TrustManager[]{
new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) {}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) {}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
}
};
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("ssl");
sc.init(null, noopTrustManager, null);
return sc;
} catch (KeyManagementException | NoSuchAlgorithmException ex) {
return null;
}
}
and then make you HttpClient like this
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newBuilder()
.sslContext(insecureContext())
.build();

How to ignore SSL certificate errors in Apache HttpClient 4.0

How do I bypass invalid SSL certificate errors with Apache HttpClient 4.0?

All of the other answers were either deprecated or didn't work for HttpClient 4.3.
Here is a way to allow all hostnames when building an http client.
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients
.custom()
.setHostnameVerifier(new AllowAllHostnameVerifier())
.build();
Or if you are using version 4.4 or later, the updated call looks like this:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
.build();

You need to create a SSLContext with your own TrustManager and create HTTPS scheme using this context. Here is the code,
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
// set up a TrustManager that trusts everything
sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
System.out.println("getAcceptedIssuers =============");
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
String authType) {
System.out.println("checkClientTrusted =============");
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
String authType) {
System.out.println("checkServerTrusted =============");
}
} }, new SecureRandom());
SSLSocketFactory sf = new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext);
Scheme httpsScheme = new Scheme("https", 443, sf);
SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
schemeRegistry.register(httpsScheme);
// apache HttpClient version >4.2 should use BasicClientConnectionManager
ClientConnectionManager cm = new SingleClientConnManager(schemeRegistry);
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm);

Apache HttpClient 4.5.5
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLContext(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, TrustAllStrategy.INSTANCE).build())
.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
.build();
No deprecated API has been used.
Simple verifiable test case:
package org.apache.http.client.test;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
public class ApacheHttpClientTest {
private HttpClient httpClient;
#Before
public void initClient() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException {
httpClient = HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLContext(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, TrustAllStrategy.INSTANCE).build())
.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
.build();
}
#Test
public void apacheHttpClient455Test() throws IOException {
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://expired.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://wrong.host.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://self-signed.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://untrusted-root.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://revoked.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://pinning-test.badssl.com");
executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk("https://sha1-intermediate.badssl.com");
}
private void executeRequestAndVerifyStatusIsOk(String url) throws IOException {
HttpUriRequest request = new HttpGet(url);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request);
int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
assert statusCode == 200;
}
}

Just had to do this with the newer HttpClient 4.5 and it seems like they've deprecated a few things since 4.4 so here's the snippet that works for me and uses the most recent API:
final SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder()
.loadTrustMaterial(null, (x509CertChain, authType) -> true)
.build();
return HttpClientBuilder.create()
.setSSLContext(sslContext)
.setConnectionManager(
new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(
RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create()
.register("http", PlainConnectionSocketFactory.INSTANCE)
.register("https", new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext,
NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE))
.build()
))
.build();

Just for the record, there is a much simpler way to accomplish the same with HttpClient 4.1
SSLSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLSocketFactory(new TrustStrategy() {
public boolean isTrusted(
final X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
// Oh, I am easy...
return true;
}
});

For the record, tested with httpclient 4.3.6 and compatible with Executor of fluent api:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().
setHostnameVerifier(new AllowAllHostnameVerifier()).
setSslcontext(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy()
{
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException
{
return true;
}
}).build()).build();

For Apache HttpClient 4.4:
HttpClientBuilder b = HttpClientBuilder.create();
SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
}).build();
b.setSslcontext( sslContext);
// or SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier(), if you don't want to weaken
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER;
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, hostnameVerifier);
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create()
.register("http", PlainConnectionSocketFactory.getSocketFactory())
.register("https", sslSocketFactory)
.build();
// allows multi-threaded use
PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager connMgr = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager( socketFactoryRegistry);
b.setConnectionManager( connMgr);
HttpClient client = b.build();
This is extracted from our actual working implementation.
The other answers are popular, but for HttpClient 4.4 they don't work. I spent hours trying & exhausting possibilities, but there seems to have been extremely major API change & relocation at 4.4.
See also a slightly fuller explanation at: http://literatejava.com/networks/ignore-ssl-certificate-errors-apache-httpclient-4-4/
Hope that helps!

If all you want to do is get rid of invalid hostname errors you can just do:
HttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient();
SSLSocketFactory sf = (SSLSocketFactory)httpClient.getConnectionManager()
.getSchemeRegistry().getScheme("https").getSocketFactory();
sf.setHostnameVerifier(new AllowAllHostnameVerifier());

We are using HTTPClient 4.3.5 and we tried almost all solutions exist on the stackoverflow but nothing,
After thinking and figuring out the problem, we come to the following code which works perfectly,
just add it before creating HttpClient instance.
some method to call when making post requests....
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSF = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(builder.build(),
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslSF).build();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);
continue your request in the normal form

With fluent 4.5.2 i had to make the following modification to make it work.
try {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] {
new X509TrustManager() {
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) { }
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) { }
}
};
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE).setSslcontext(sc).build();
String output = Executor.newInstance(httpClient).execute(Request.Get("https://127.0.0.1:3000/something")
.connectTimeout(1000)
.socketTimeout(1000)).returnContent().asString();
} catch (Exception e) {
}

This is how I did it -
Create my own MockSSLSocketFactory (Class attached below)
Use it to initialise DefaultHttpClient. Proxy settings need to be provided if a proxy is used.
Initialising DefaultHTTPClient -
SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("http", 80, PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory()));
schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https", 443, new MockSSLSocketFactory()));
ClientConnectionManager cm = new SingleClientConnManager(schemeRegistry);
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm);
Mock SSL Factory -
public class MockSSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
public MockSSLSocketFactory() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, UnrecoverableKeyException {
super(trustStrategy, hostnameVerifier);
}
private static final X509HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = new X509HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public void verify(String host, SSLSocket ssl) throws IOException {
// Do nothing
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, X509Certificate cert) throws SSLException {
//Do nothing
}
#Override
public void verify(String host, String[] cns, String[] subjectAlts) throws SSLException {
//Do nothing
}
#Override
public boolean verify(String s, SSLSession sslSession) {
return true;
}
};
private static final TrustStrategy trustStrategy = new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
};
}
If behind a proxy, need to do this -
HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
params.setParameter(AuthPNames.PROXY_AUTH_PREF, getClientAuthPrefs());
DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(cm, params);
httpclient.getCredentialsProvider().setCredentials(
new AuthScope(proxyHost, proxyPort),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials(proxyUser, proxyPass));

In extension to ZZ Coder's answer it will be nice to override the hostnameverifier.
// ...
SSLSocketFactory sf = new SSLSocketFactory (sslContext);
sf.setHostnameVerifier(new X509HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
public void verify(String host, String[] cns, String[] subjectAlts) throws SSLException {
}
public void verify(String host, X509Certificate cert) throws SSLException {
}
public void verify(String host, SSLSocket ssl) throws IOException {
}
});
// ...

Tested with HttpClient 4.5.5 with Fluent API
final SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder()
.loadTrustMaterial(null, (x509CertChain, authType) -> true).build();
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
.setSSLContext(sslContext).build();
String result = Executor.newInstance(httpClient)
.execute(Request.Get("https://localhost:8080/someapi")
.connectTimeout(1000).socketTimeout(1000))
.returnContent().asString();

DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
SSLContext sslContext;
try {
sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
// set up a TrustManager that trusts everything
try {
sslContext.init(null,
new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
log.debug("getAcceptedIssuers =============");
return null;
}
public void checkClientTrusted(
X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
log.debug("checkClientTrusted =============");
}
public void checkServerTrusted(
X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
log.debug("checkServerTrusted =============");
}
} }, new SecureRandom());
} catch (KeyManagementException e) {
}
SSLSocketFactory ssf = new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext,SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
ClientConnectionManager ccm = this.httpclient.getConnectionManager();
SchemeRegistry sr = ccm.getSchemeRegistry();
sr.register(new Scheme("https", 443, ssf));
} catch (Exception e) {
log.error(e.getMessage(),e);
}

To accept all certificates in HttpClient 4.4.x you can use the following one liner when creating the httpClient:
httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLHostnameVerifier(new NoopHostnameVerifier()).setSslcontext(new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, (x509Certificates, s) -> true).build()).build();

Below code works with 4.5.5
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpUriRequest;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
class HttpsSSLClient {
public static CloseableHttpClient createSSLInsecureClient() {
SSLContext sslcontext = createSSLContext();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslcontext, new HostnameVerifier() {
#Override
public boolean verify(String paramString, SSLSession paramSSLSession) {
return true;
}
});
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf).build();
return httpclient;
}
private static SSLContext createSSLContext() {
SSLContext sslcontext = null;
try {
sslcontext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sslcontext.init(null, new TrustManager[] {new TrustAnyTrustManager()}, new SecureRandom());
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (KeyManagementException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return sslcontext;
}
private static class TrustAnyTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return new X509Certificate[] {};
}
}
}
public class TestMe {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
CloseableHttpClient client = HttpsSSLClient.createSSLInsecureClient();
CloseableHttpResponse res = client.execute(new HttpGet("https://wrong.host.badssl.com/"));
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(res.getEntity()));
}
}
Output from code is
Output on browser is
The pom used is below
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.tarun</groupId>
<artifactId>testing</artifactId>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>6</source>
<target>6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5.5</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Tested on 4.5.4:
SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder()
.loadTrustMaterial(null, (TrustStrategy) (arg0, arg1) -> true).build();
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLHostnameVerifier(NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE)
.setSSLContext(sslContext)
.build();

a full working version for Apache HttpClient 4.1.3 (based on oleg's code above, but it still needed an allow_all_hostname_verifier on my system):
private static HttpClient trustEveryoneSslHttpClient() {
try {
SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(new TrustStrategy() {
public boolean isTrusted(final X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
// Oh, I am easy...
return true;
}
}, org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
registry.register(new Scheme("https", 443, socketFactory));
ThreadSafeClientConnManager mgr = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(registry);
DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient(mgr, new DefaultHttpClient().getParams());
return client;
} catch (GeneralSecurityException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
Note I'm re-throwing all exceptions because really, there's not much I can do if any of this fails in a real system!

If you are using the fluent API, you need to set it up via the Executor:
Executor.unregisterScheme("https");
SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext,
SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
Executor.registerScheme(new Scheme("https", 443, sslSocketFactory));
... where sslContext is the SSLContext created as shown in the ZZ Coder's answer.
After that, you can do your http requests as:
String responseAsString = Request.Get("https://192.168.1.0/whatever.json")
.execute().getContent().asString();
Note: tested with HttpClient 4.2

Tested with 4.3.3
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import org.apache.http.Header;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContexts;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class AccessProtectedResource {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
// Trust all certs
SSLContext sslcontext = buildSSLContext();
// Allow TLSv1 protocol only
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslsf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(
sslcontext,
new String[] { "TLSv1" },
null,
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf)
.build();
try {
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://yoururl");
System.out.println("executing request" + httpget.getRequestLine());
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
try {
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
if (entity != null) {
System.out.println("Response content length: " + entity.getContentLength());
}
for (Header header : response.getAllHeaders()) {
System.out.println(header);
}
EntityUtils.consume(entity);
} finally {
response.close();
}
} finally {
httpclient.close();
}
}
private static SSLContext buildSSLContext()
throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException,
KeyStoreException {
SSLContext sslcontext = SSLContexts.custom()
.setSecureRandom(new SecureRandom())
.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
})
.build();
return sslcontext;
}
}

If you encountered this problem when using AmazonS3Client, which embeds Apache HttpClient 4.1, you simply need to define a system property like this so that the SSL cert checker is relaxed:
-Dcom.amazonaws.sdk.disableCertChecking=true
Mischief managed

fwiw, an example using "RestEasy" implementation of JAX-RS 2.x to build a special "trust all" client...
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import javax.ejb.Stateless;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.ws.rs.GET;
import javax.ws.rs.Path;
import javax.ws.rs.Produces;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
import javax.ws.rs.client.Entity;
import javax.ws.rs.core.MediaType;
import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
import org.apache.http.config.Registry;
import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.HttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyClient;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyClientBuilder;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.ResteasyWebTarget;
import org.jboss.resteasy.client.jaxrs.engines.ApacheHttpClient4Engine;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.BasicHttpClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.ConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts;
#Stateless
#Path("/postservice")
public class PostService {
private static final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger("PostService");
public PostService() {
}
#GET
#Produces({MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
public PostRespDTO get() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, MalformedURLException, IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
//...object passed to the POST method...
PostDTO requestObject = new PostDTO();
requestObject.setEntryAList(new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("ITEM0000A", "ITEM0000B", "ITEM0000C")));
requestObject.setEntryBList(new ArrayList<>(Arrays.asList("AAA", "BBB", "CCC")));
//...build special "trust all" client to call POST method...
ApacheHttpClient4Engine engine = new ApacheHttpClient4Engine(createTrustAllClient());
ResteasyClient client = new ResteasyClientBuilder().httpEngine(engine).build();
ResteasyWebTarget target = client.target("https://localhost:7002/postRespWS").path("postrespservice");
Response response = target.request().accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON).post(Entity.entity(requestObject, MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON));
//...object returned from the POST method...
PostRespDTO responseObject = response.readEntity(PostRespDTO.class);
response.close();
return responseObject;
}
//...get special "trust all" client...
private static CloseableHttpClient createTrustAllClient() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyStoreException, KeyManagementException {
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContexts.custom().loadTrustMaterial(null, TRUSTALLCERTS).useProtocol("TLS").build();
HttpClientBuilder builder = HttpClientBuilder.create();
NoopHostnameVerifier noop = new NoopHostnameVerifier();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslConnectionSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, noop);
builder.setSSLSocketFactory(sslConnectionSocketFactory);
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> registry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory>create().register("https", sslConnectionSocketFactory).build();
HttpClientConnectionManager ccm = new BasicHttpClientConnectionManager(registry);
builder.setConnectionManager(ccm);
return builder.build();
}
private static final TrustStrategy TRUSTALLCERTS = new TrustStrategy() {
#Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
};
}
related Maven dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
<artifactId>resteasy-client</artifactId>
<version>3.0.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxrs-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.jboss.resteasy</groupId>
<artifactId>resteasy-jackson2-provider</artifactId>
<version>3.0.10.Final</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
<artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
<version>4.5</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
<version>7.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

If you are using Apache httpClient 4.5.x then try this:
public static void main(String... args) {
try (CloseableHttpClient httpclient = createAcceptSelfSignedCertificateClient()) {
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("https://example.com");
System.out.println("Executing request " + httpget.getRequestLine());
httpclient.execute(httpget);
System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException | KeyStoreException | KeyManagementException | IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
private static CloseableHttpClient createAcceptSelfSignedCertificateClient()
throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyStoreException {
// use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy to allow Self Signed Certificates
SSLContext sslContext = SSLContextBuilder
.create()
.loadTrustMaterial(new TrustSelfSignedStrategy())
.build();
// we can optionally disable hostname verification.
// if you don't want to further weaken the security, you don't have to include this.
HostnameVerifier allowAllHosts = new NoopHostnameVerifier();
// create an SSL Socket Factory to use the SSLContext with the trust self signed certificate strategy
// and allow all hosts verifier.
SSLConnectionSocketFactory connectionFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, allowAllHosts);
// finally create the HttpClient using HttpClient factory methods and assign the ssl socket factory
return HttpClients
.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(connectionFactory)
.build();
}