How to force Commons HTTPClient 3.1 to use TLS 1.2 only for HTTPS?

Question

I wish to force Apache Commons HTTP-Client (version 3.1) to use TLS 1.2 as the only protocol for HTTPS.

This is due to the server supposedly being upgraded to TLS 1.2 and not accepting any older protocol anymore (causing 'Connection Reset' to be returned).

For further context, probably irrelevant, the HTTP-Client is used along with Axis2 to make a SOAP; some of the code used for setting up the HttpClient is below:

MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager connMgr = new MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager();
this.httpClient = new HttpClient(connMgr);

// initialize HttpClient parameters
HttpClientParams hcParams = this.httpClient.getParams();

// Maximum time to wait to receive connection from pool
hcParams.setConnectionManagerTimeout(this.maxWait);
hcParams.setSoTimeout(this.timeout);
hcParams.setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER, new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler(this.retryCount, false));

// Initialize global Connection manager parameters
HttpConnectionManagerParams cmParams = connMgr.getParams();
cmParams.setDefaultMaxConnectionsPerHost(this.maxActive);
cmParams.setStaleCheckingEnabled(this.checkStaleConnections);
cmParams.setConnectionTimeout(this.timeout);

Thanks a lot for the help!

Answer 1

Too bad nobody answered; I was able to do it, first you write a CustomHttpSocketFactory, then you do:

String scheme = "https";
Protocol baseHttps = Protocol.getProtocol(scheme);
int defaultPort = baseHttps.getDefaultPort();

ProtocolSocketFactory baseFactory = baseHttps.getSocketFactory();
ProtocolSocketFactory customFactory = new CustomHttpsSocketFactory(baseFactory);

Protocol customHttps = new Protocol(scheme, customFactory, defaultPort);
Protocol.registerProtocol(scheme, customHttps); 

A sample custom socket factory code is found here, but instead I did:

public class CustomHttpsSocketFactory implements SecureProtocolSocketFactory
{

   private final SecureProtocolSocketFactory base;

   public CustomHttpsSocketFactory(ProtocolSocketFactory base)
   {
      if(base == null || !(base instanceof SecureProtocolSocketFactory)) throw new IllegalArgumentException();
      this.base = (SecureProtocolSocketFactory) base;
   }

   private Socket acceptOnlyTLS12(Socket socket)
   {
      if(!(socket instanceof SSLSocket)) return socket;
      SSLSocket sslSocket = (SSLSocket) socket;
      sslSocket.setEnabledProtocols(new String[]{"TLSv1.2" });
      return sslSocket;
   }

   @Override
   public Socket createSocket(String host, int port) throws IOException
   {
      return acceptOnlyTLS12(base.createSocket(host, port));
   }
   @Override
   public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress localAddress, int localPort) throws IOException
   {
      return acceptOnlyTLS12(base.createSocket(host, port, localAddress, localPort));
   }
   @Override
   public Socket createSocket(String host, int port, InetAddress localAddress, int localPort, HttpConnectionParams params) throws IOException
   {
      return acceptOnlyTLS12(base.createSocket(host, port, localAddress, localPort, params));
   }
   @Override
   public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException
   {
      return acceptOnlyTLS12(base.createSocket(socket, host, port, autoClose));
   }

}