Question

I’m using the Jersey Client library to run tests against a rest service running on jboss.
I have https set up fine on the server (running on localhost), using a self signed cert.

However whenever I run my tests with the https url I get the following error:

com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: 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
    at com.sun.jersey.client.urlconnection.URLConnectionClientHandler.handle(URLConnectionClientHandler.java:131)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.client.Client.handle(Client.java:629)
    at com.sun.jersey.oauth.client.OAuthClientFilter.handle(OAuthClientFilter.java:137)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.handle(WebResource.java:601)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource.access$200(WebResource.java:74)
    at com.sun.jersey.api.client.WebResource$Builder.get(WebResource.java:459)
    at test.helper.Helper.sendSignedRequest(Helper.java:174)
    ... And so on

I know this is because my self signed cert is not in the java keystore. Is there any way I can make the Client not check the validity of the ssl cert and just use it regardless?

This code will only ever be run against test servers so I don’t want to go to the hassle of adding new trusted certs each time we set up a new test server.

Here’s the code which is making the call:

OAuthParameters params = new OAuthParameters();

// baseline OAuth parameters for access to resource
params.signatureMethod(props.getProperty("signature_method"));
params.consumerKey(props.getProperty("consumer_key"));
params.setToken(props.getProperty("token"));
params.setVersion("1.0");
params.nonce();

// OAuth secrets to access resource
OAuthSecrets secrets = new OAuthSecrets();
secrets.consumerSecret(props.getProperty("consumer_secret"));
secrets.setTokenSecret(props.getProperty("token_secret"));

// Jersey client to make REST calls to token services
Client client = Client.create();

// OAuth test server resource
WebResource resource = client.resource(props.getProperty("url"));

// if parameters and secrets remain static, filter cab be added to each web resource
OAuthClientFilter filter = new OAuthClientFilter(client.getProviders(), params, secrets);

// filter added at the web resource level
resource.addFilter(filter);
WebResource.Builder wbr = resource.getRequestBuilder().accept(props.getProperty("accept"));

return wbr.get(ClientResponse.class);

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

After some searching and trawling through some old stackoverflow questions I’ve found a solution in a previously asked SO question:

• Question: Java client certificates over HTTPS/SSL
• Answer Java client certificates over HTTPS/SSL

Here’s the code that I ended up using.

// Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
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){}
}};

// Install the all-trusting trust manager
try {
    SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
    sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
    HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
} catch (Exception e) {
    ;
}