Walter, you could point to the default JRE truststore file, maybe.

Andrew

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019, 7:12 AM Kevin Doran <kdo...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Walter,
>
> I could be mistaken, but my interpretation of the Trusted Hostname
> configuration option is that it is designed to work with/in-addition-to the
> truststore, not instead of a truststore as an alternative trust mechanism.
>
> Basically, I think it is to be used in situations when the default
> hostname verifier (i.e., the remote hostname must match the hostname/SANs
> of the certificate) prevents the connection. IF you have a reason the
> hostname does not match the cert (for example, a dev/test environment) you
> could whitelist an alternative hostname while still making aan HTTPS
> connection.
>
> Note that when using this option there are man-in-the-middle attack
> implications you should consider.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
>
> On January 9, 2019 at 03:28:45, Vos, Walter (walter....@ns.nl) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to use the invokeHttp processor to POST to an https site
> through a proxy. The
> > proxy is http. Through some googling I found references that Java is
> rather finicky with
> > SSL connections and wants the target server certificate in its
> truststore, but InvokeHttp
> > also offers the trusted hostname parameter.
> >
> > Because I don't have CLI access to the server that NiFi runs on, that
> seemed like the way
> > to get what I want and I added the hostname to the Trusted Hostname. The
> domain is in a form
> > of subsub.sub.domain.tld and I've tried it just like, as well as
> *.sub.domain.tld and
> > *.domain.tld and domain.tld, but I keep getting this Java exception:
> >
> > sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
> sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException:
> > unable to find valid certification path to requested target
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong? Is truststore really the only way to go?
> We're working with
> > HDF 3.1.0 / NiFi 1.5.0.*
> >
> > Cheers, Walter
> >
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