Accept server's self-signed ssl certificate in Java client

Question

It looks like a standard question, but I couldn\'t find clear directions anywhere.

I have java code trying to connect to a server with probably self-signed (or expir

Answer 1

The accepted answer is fine, but I'd like to add something to this as I was using IntelliJ on Mac and couldn't get it to work using the JAVA_HOME path variable.

It turns out Java Home was different when running the application from IntelliJ.

To figure out exactly where it is, you can just do System.getProperty("java.home") as that's where the trusted certificates are read from.