Trust Anchor not found for Android SSL Connection

Question

I am trying to connect to an IIS6 box running a godaddy 256bit SSL cert, and I am getting the error :

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust an         


        

Answer 1

I know that you don't need to trust all certificates but in my case I had problems with some debugging environments where we had self-signed certificates and I needed a dirty solution.

All I had to do was to change the initialization of the sslContext

mySSLContext.init(null, trustAllCerts, null); 

where trustAllCerts was created like this:

private final TrustManager[] trustAllCerts= new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
    public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
        return new java.security.cert.X509Certificate[]{};
    }

    public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                                   String authType) throws CertificateException {
    }

    public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                                   String authType) throws CertificateException {
    }
} };

Hope that this will come in handy.