Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 11:26:21 AM, you wrote: JS> Hi, folks,
JS> https://www.denix.osd.mil/ has a suspicious certificate, but I want JS> it to get past my link checker program all the same. I suppose I JS> could just allow an SSLHandshakeException "pass" the link checker JS> test, or I could have it ignore this URL altogether, but is there a JS> way that I can accept the certificate in this case, preferably from JS> the command line? JS> Example code and stack trace follow. JS> TIA, JS> Jim JS> import java.net.URI; JS> import java.net.URL; JS> import java.net.URLConnection; JS> public class TestHttps { JS> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { JS> URI uri=new URI("https://www.denix.osd.mil/";); JS> URL url=uri.toURL(); JS> URLConnection conn=url.openConnection(); JS> conn.connect(); // exception here JS> } JS> } Hello Jim, May not fit your needs but I've done this will Apache's HTTPClient and would guess it's doable using straight java.net. I highly recommend HTTPClient over java.net. In HTTPClient I did: Protocol.registerProtocol("https", new Protocol("https", (ProtocolSocketFactory)new EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory(), 443)); Not sure if java.net has something similar or not. EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory is based off an example of accepting self-signed certificates I found in SVN on httpclient (which is down at the moment). Let me know if you want it and I can post my version. I made a couple of changes so it would work in IBM and Sun VMs and moved it to the javax impl instead of the internal Sun impl. Opera tells me that - The certificate for "www.denix.osd.mil" is signed by the unknown Certificate Authority "DOD CLASS 3 CA-4". It is not possible to verify that this is a valid certificate More info: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/sslguide.html FWIW I tried hitting that site with my HTTPClient code and it works fine. Chris -- Chris Grindstaff | http://gstaff.org _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [email protected] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
