This code has been scraped together from various sources around the web when I tried to figure out how to stop validation of the SSL certificate when using HttpURLConnection in Android. The following code disables SSL certificate checking for any new instances of HttpsUrlConnection;
/**
* Disables the SSL certificate checking for new instances of {@link HttpsURLConnection} This has been created to
* aid testing on a local box, not for use on production.
*/
private static void disableSSLCertificateChecking() {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
@Override
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
// Not implemented
}
@Override
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException {
// Not implemented
}
} };
try {
SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
} catch (KeyManagementException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
HttpsUrlConnection extends HttpUrlConnection so you should be able to call all of the same methods that you were previously using. Now, call the above method, and then create a new instance of HttpsUrlConnection and use that in exactly the same way as you were using the HttpUrlConnection.