HttpGet with HTTPS : SSLPeerUnverifiedException

Question

Using HttpClient, I receive the following error when attempting to communicate over HTTPS:

Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated.

Here is my code:

URI loginUri = new URI("https://myUrl.asp");

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet( loginUri );
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( httpget );

How do I suppress or remove this error?

Answer 1

Note: Do not do this in production code, use http instead, or the actual self signed public key as suggested above.

On HttpClient 4.xx:

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.junit.Test;

public class HttpClientTrustingAllCertsTest {

    @Test
    public void shouldAcceptUnsafeCerts() throws Exception {
        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = httpClientTrustingAllSSLCerts();
        HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://host_with_self_signed_cert");
        HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute( httpGet );
        assertEquals("HTTP/1.1 200 OK", response.getStatusLine().toString());
    }

    private DefaultHttpClient httpClientTrustingAllSSLCerts() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
        DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        sc.init(null, getTrustingManager(), new java.security.SecureRandom());

        SSLSocketFactory socketFactory = new SSLSocketFactory(sc);
        Scheme sch = new Scheme("https", 443, socketFactory);
        httpclient.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry().register(sch);
        return httpclient;
    }

    private TrustManager[] getTrustingManager() {
        TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
            @Override
            public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                return null;
            }

            @Override
            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
                // Do nothing
            }

            @Override
            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
                // Do nothing
            }

        } };
        return trustAllCerts;
    }
}