I want to do a HTTPS post method to send some data from my android app to my website.
I used HttpURLConnection
first and it's working fine with my HTTP URL. My production website is on HTTPS and I want to send the same POST using HttpsURLConnection
. Can someone help me use the class properly?
I found some source at this link:
KeyStore keyStore = ...;
TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance("X509");
tmf.init(keyStore);
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
context.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
URL url = new URL("https://www.example.com/");
HttpsURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpsURLConnection)
url.openConnection();
urlConnection.setSSLSocketFactory(context.getSocketFactory());
InputStream in = urlConnection.getInputStream();
What should be the value of KeyStore keyStore = ...;
?
I tried sending the data using the same HttpURLConnection
, but I am seeing some POST data is missed or in error.
I've tried the method from this question. I am pasting my code below
String urlParameters="dateTime=" + URLEncoder.encode(dateTime,"UTF-8")+
"&mobileNum="+URLEncoder.encode(mobileNum,"UTF-8");
URL url = new URL(myurl);
HttpsURLConnection conn;
conn=(HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();
// Create the SSL connection
SSLContext sc;
sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sc.init(null, null, new java.security.SecureRandom());
conn.setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
conn.setConnectTimeout(HTTP_CONNECT_TIME_OUT);
conn.setReadTimeout(HTTP_READ_TIME_OUT);
//set the output to true, indicating you are outputting(uploading) POST data
conn.setDoOutput(true);
//once you set the output to true, you don't really need to set the request method to post, but I'm doing it anyway
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(urlParameters.getBytes().length);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
out.print(urlParameters);
out.close();
InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response += inputLine;
}
The error I am getting is below:
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://www.myurl.com/fms/test
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:177)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at libcore.net.http.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getInputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:270)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at .httpRequest(SMSToDBService.java:490)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at com..access$0(SMSToDBService.java:424)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at com.$ChildThread$1.handleMessage(SMSToDBService.java:182)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:156)
05-12 19:36:10.758: W/System.err(1123): at com.$ChildThread.run(SMSToDBService.java:303)
You can use the default CAs that are defined in the android device, which is just fine for any public web.
If you have a self-signed certificate, you can either accept all certificates (risky, open to man-in-the-middle attacks) or create your own TrustManagerFactory
, which is a bit out of this scope.
Here's some code to use the default CAs for a https POST call:
private InputStream getInputStream(String urlStr, String user, String password) throws IOException
{
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
HttpsURLConnection conn = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Create the SSL connection
SSLContext sc;
sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sc.init(null, null, new java.security.SecureRandom());
conn.setSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
// Use this if you need SSL authentication
String userpass = user + ":" + password;
String basicAuth = "Basic " + Base64.encodeToString(userpass.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT);
conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", basicAuth);
// set Timeout and method
conn.setReadTimeout(7000);
conn.setConnectTimeout(7000);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoInput(true);
// Add any data you wish to post here
conn.connect();
return conn.getInputStream();
}
To read the response:
String result = new String();
InputStream is = getInputStream(urlStr, user, password);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
result += inputLine;
}