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Asked: 2026-05-14T08:43:49+00:00

I’m trying to print a URL (without having a browser involved at all) but

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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: 
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: 
unable to find valid certification path to requested target

I’m calling the URL using a JEditorPane’s setPage method, which just takes a URL as a parameter. Assuming I can’t change anything server side and I still need to get to this resource, how would I go about ignoring the certificate error (or something else that gets me to my goal)?

Accessing this URL via a browser tells me the site is untrusted and asks me if I want to proceed.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Extend JEditorPane to override the getStream() method.

    Inside that method, you can open a URLConnection. Test whether it is an HttpsURLConnection. If it is, initialize your own SSLContext with a custom X509TrustManager that doesn’t perform any checks. Get the context’s SSLSocketFactory and set it as the socket factory for the connection. Then return the InputStream from the connection.

    This will defeat any attempts by the runtime to protect the user from a spoof site serving up malware. If that’s really what you want…

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