Accept Self signed certificate in JAVA.
Have you ever faced problem with SSLHandshakeException ?
This is because you are trying to use a website which uses an non-standard https certificate which are not registered on JRE. If you want a self signed certificate web request to be accepted, here is the code.
The below procedure applicable for JRE 6 -
import java.net.URL;
import java.security.SecureRandom;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.KeyManager;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
public class SSLTest {
public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
// configure the SSLContext with a TrustManager
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
ctx.init(new KeyManager[0], new TrustManager[] {new DefaultTrustManager()}, new SecureRandom());
SSLContext.setDefault(ctx);
URL url = new URL("https://mms.nw.ru");
HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
@Override
public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
return true;
}
});
System.out.println(conn.getResponseCode());
conn.disconnect();
}
private static class DefaultTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
@Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {}
@Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {}
@Override
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
}
}
For Java 1.4 -
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import javax.net.SocketFactory;
import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.ConnectTimeoutException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpConnectionParams;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.ProtocolSocketFactory;
/**
* to bypass self-signed certificate
*
*
*/
public class MySSLSocketFactory implements ProtocolSocketFactory {
private TrustManager[] getTrustManager() {
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) {
}
}
};
return trustAllCerts;
}
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port) throws IOException,
UnknownHostException {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = getTrustManager();
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection
.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
SocketFactory socketFactory = HttpsURLConnection
.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory();
return socketFactory.createSocket(host, port);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new UnknownHostException("Problems to connect " + host
+ ex.toString());
}
}
public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port,
boolean flag) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = getTrustManager();
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection
.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
SocketFactory socketFactory = HttpsURLConnection
.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory();
return socketFactory.createSocket(host, port);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new UnknownHostException("Problems to connect " + host
+ ex.toString());
}
}
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress clientHost,
int clientPort) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = getTrustManager();
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection
.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
SocketFactory socketFactory = HttpsURLConnection
.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory();
return socketFactory.createSocket(host, port, clientHost,
clientPort);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new UnknownHostException("Problems to connect " + host
+ ex.toString());
}
}
public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress localAddress,
int localPort, HttpConnectionParams arg4) throws IOException,
UnknownHostException, ConnectTimeoutException {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = getTrustManager();
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection
.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
SocketFactory socketFactory = HttpsURLConnection
.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory();
return socketFactory.createSocket(host, port);
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new UnknownHostException("Problems to connect " + host
+ ex.toString());
}
}
}
Then Register the code below in the application load - as below :
Protocol.registerProtocol("https", new Protocol("https", new MySSLSocketFactory(), 443));
For Java 1.5
package com.bijay.pseg.myaccount.security;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;
import javax.security.cert.CertificateException;
import javax.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.conn.ClientConnectionManager;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.X509HostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
/*
This code is public domain: you are free to use, link and/or modify it in any way you want, for all purposes including commercial applications.
*/
public class WebClientDevWrapper {
public static HttpClient wrapClient(HttpClient base) {
try {
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
X509TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) throws CertificateException {
}
public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
@Override
public void checkClientTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
throws java.security.cert.CertificateException {
}
@Override
public void checkServerTrusted(
java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
throws java.security.cert.CertificateException {
}
};
X509HostnameVerifier verifier = new X509HostnameVerifier() {
@Override
public void verify(String string, SSLSocket ssls) throws IOException {
}
public void verify(String string, X509Certificate xc) throws SSLException {
}
@Override
public void verify(String string, String[] strings, String[] strings1) throws SSLException {
}
@Override
public boolean verify(String string, SSLSession ssls) {
return true;
}
@Override
public void verify(String arg0,
java.security.cert.X509Certificate arg1)
throws SSLException {
}
};
ctx.init(null, new TrustManager[]{tm}, null);
SSLSocketFactory ssf = new SSLSocketFactory(ctx);
ssf.setHostnameVerifier(verifier);
ClientConnectionManager ccm = base.getConnectionManager();
SchemeRegistry sr = ccm.getSchemeRegistry();
sr.register(new Scheme("https", ssf, 443));
return new DefaultHttpClient(ccm, base.getParams());
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}
}
Then Warp the Apache httpclient object in the code with above class file.
HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
WebClientDevWrapper.wrapClient(httpclient);
Happy Coding!!!