walth
9/19/2017 - 6:39 PM

Sending post data to https without ssl cert verification with apache httpClient client

Sending post data to https without ssl cert verification with apache httpClient client

public String sendPost(final String request, final String postData) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException  {
    String result = null;
    SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");

    // set up a TrustManager that trusts everything
    sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
                public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                        System.out.println("getAcceptedIssuers =============");
                        return null;
                }

                public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                                String authType) {
                        System.out.println("checkClientTrusted =============");
                }

                public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs,
                                String authType) {
                        System.out.println("checkServerTrusted =============");
                }
    } }, new SecureRandom());

    CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLSocketFactory(sslContext)).build();
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(request);
    ByteArrayEntity postDataEntity = new ByteArrayEntity(postData.getBytes());
    httpPost.setEntity(postDataEntity);
    CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
    try {
        HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
        result = EntityUtils.toString(entity);
        EntityUtils.consume(entity);
    } finally {
        response.close();
    }
    return result;

}