Timothee Maret created HTTPCLIENT-1752:
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Summary: Allow to configure the OSGI clients with relaxed SSL
checks
Key: HTTPCLIENT-1752
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1752
Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: HttpClient
Affects Versions: 4.5.2
Reporter: Timothee Maret
In deployments other than production (e.g. dev, qa, integration testing, etc.)
it is often useful to deploy self-signed certificates instead of certificates
signed by a trusted CA for cost and simplicity reasons.
By default, the http client does not validate a self signed certificate because
it is not signed by a trusted CA root.
One way to have the http client to validate the self signed certificate is to
add the self-signed certificate (or the detached CA root that signed it) in the
java trustore.
This operation is a configuration only change (no need to change code) however
it typically requires accessing the FS and the scope of trust can't be easily
modified at runtime.
Another way to have the http client to validate the self signed certificate is
to use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy [0] strategy when building the http client.
This requires modifying the code.
In order to use the second approach without modifying code, it would be
interesting to allow configuring a set of URIs for which the relaxed SSL mode
should be used.
The configuration could be implemented similarly to the implementation of the
central prox configuration (OSGI) in HTTPCLIENT-1238. In addition to allowing
sel-signed certificates, the configuration could as well allow to skip FQDN
check using the NoopHostnameVerifier [1].
Of course, this feature *must not* be deployed in production environment as it
is totally insecure.
[0]
https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/TrustSelfSignedStrategy.html
[1]
https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/NoopHostnameVerifier.html
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