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Oleg Kalnichevski commented on HTTPCLIENT-1752:
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@simonetripodi In my option this feature is too big to be added to a stable
branch without going through the standard ALPHA / BETA / GA development
process. What we could do is to create 4.6.x branch and backport the changes to
that branch. The problem is who steps in to act as a release manager for that
branch.
Oleg
> Allow to configure the OSGI clients with relaxed SSL checks
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>
> 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
> Assignee: Simone Tripodi
> Fix For: Future
>
> Attachments: HTTPCLIENT-1752_initial.patch
>
>
> 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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