I did not include the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER on purpose: The point was to allow testing with self signed certificates so you don't have to acquire a proper certificate from a certification authority. You can easily create a self-signed certificate with the correct host name, so do that instead of adding the SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER flag.
as well. (ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER is deprecated).
Obligatory warning: you shouldn't really do this, accepting all certificates is a bad thing. However there are some rare use cases where you want to do this.
As a note to code previously given, you'll want to close response even if httpclient.execute() throws an exception
If you are using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager procedure above doesn't work, custom SSLContext is ignored. You have to pass socketFactoryRegistry in contructor when creating PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
The provided solution with the SocketFactoryRegistry works when using PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.
However, connections via plain http don't work any longer then. You have to add a PlainConnectionSocketFactory for the http protocol additionally to make them work again:
Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry =
RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create()
.register("https", sslsf)
.register("http", new PlainConnectionSocketFactory()).build();
(I would have added a comment directly to vasekt's answer but I don't have enough reputation points (not sure the logic there)
Anyway... what I wanted to say is that even if you aren't explicitly creating/asking for a PoolingConnection, doesn't mean you aren't getting one.
I was going crazy trying to figure out why the original solution didn't work for me, but I ignored vasekt's answer as it "didn't apply to my case" - wrong!
I was staring at my stack-trace when low and behold I saw a PoolingConnection in the middle of it. Bang - I tired his addition and success!! (our demo is tomorrow and I was getting desperate) :-)
We are using HTTPClient 4.3.5 and we tried almost all solutions exist on the stackoverflow but nothing,
After thinking and figuring out the problem, we come to the following code which works perfectly,
just add it before creating HttpClient instance.
some method which you use to make post request...
SSLContextBuilder builder = new SSLContextBuilder();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
@Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSF = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(builder.build(),
SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
HttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(sslSF).build();
HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(url);
continue calling and using HttpPost instance in the normal form
When using http client 4.5 I had to use the javasx.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier to allow any hostname (for testing purposes). Here is what I ended up doing:
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = null;
try {
SSLContextBuilder sslContextBuilder = new SSLContextBuilder();
sslContextBuilder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustSelfSignedStrategy());
HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifierAllowAll = new HostnameVerifier()
{
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContextBuilder.build(), hostnameVerifierAllowAll);
CredentialsProvider credsProvider = new BasicCredentialsProvider();
credsProvider.setCredentials(
new AuthScope("192.168.30.34", 8443),
new UsernamePasswordCredentials("root", "password"));
httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory)
.setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
.build();
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("https://192.168.30.34:8443/axis/services/getStuff?firstResult=0&maxResults=1000");
CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet);
int httpStatus = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode();
if (httpStatus >= 200 && httpStatus < 300) { [...]
} else {
throw new ClientProtocolException("Unexpected response status: " + httpStatus);
}
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
finally {
try {
httpClient.close();
} catch (IOException ex) {
logger.error("Error while closing the HTTP client: ", ex);
}
}
On top of PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager along with Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("https", sslFactory).build();
If you want an asynchronous httpclient using PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager the code shoudl be similar to following
SSLContextBuilder builder = SSLContexts.custom();
builder.loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy() {
@Override
public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
return true;
}
});
SSLContext sslContext = builder.build();
SchemeIOSessionStrategy sslioSessionStrategy = new SSLIOSessionStrategy(sslContext,
new HostnameVerifier(){
@Override
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;// TODO as of now allow all hostnames
}
});
Registry<SchemeIOSessionStrategy> sslioSessionRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<SchemeIOSessionStrategy>create().register("https", sslioSessionStrategy).build();
PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager ncm = new PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager(new DefaultConnectingIOReactor(),sslioSessionRegistry);
CloseableHttpAsyncClient asyncHttpClient = HttpAsyncClients.custom().setConnectionManager(ncm).build();
asyncHttpClient.start();
Initially, i was able to disable for localhost using trust strategy, later i added NoopHostnameVerifier. Now it will work for both localhost and any machine name