Https Connection Android

Question

I am doing a https post and I\'m getting an exception of ssl exception Not trusted server certificate. If i do normal http it is working perfectly fine. Do I have to accept

Answer 1

http://madurangasblogs.blogspot.in/2013/08/avoiding-javaxnetsslsslpeerunverifiedex.html

Courtesy Maduranga

When developing an application that uses https, your test server doesn't have a valid SSL certificate. Or sometimes the web site is using a self-signed certificate or the web site is using free SSL certificate. So if you try to connect to the server using Apache HttpClient, you will get a exception telling that the "peer not authenticated". Though it is not a good practice to trust all the certificates in a production software, you may have to do so according to the situation. This solution resolves the exception caused by "peer not authenticated".

But before we go to the solution, I must warn you that this is not a good idea for a production application. This will violate the purpose of using a security certificate. So unless you have a good reason or if you are sure that this will not cause any problem, don't use this solution.

Normally you create a HttpClient like this.

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

But you have to change the way you create the HttpClient.

First you have to create a class extending org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.

import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStore;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;
import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;

public class MySSLSocketFactory extends SSLSocketFactory {
         SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");

    public MySSLSocketFactory(KeyStore truststore) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException, KeyStoreException, UnrecoverableKeyException {
        super(truststore);

        TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            }

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

            public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
                return null;
            }
        };

        sslContext.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
    }

    @Override
    public Socket createSocket(Socket socket, String host, int port, boolean autoClose) throws IOException, UnknownHostException {
        return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket(socket, host, port, autoClose);
    }

    @Override
    public Socket createSocket() throws IOException {
        return sslContext.getSocketFactory().createSocket();
    }
}

Then create a method like this.

public HttpClient getNewHttpClient() {
     try {
         KeyStore trustStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
         trustStore.load(null, null);

         SSLSocketFactory sf = new MySSLSocketFactory(trustStore);
         sf.setHostnameVerifier(SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);

         HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
         HttpProtocolParams.setVersion(params, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1);
         HttpProtocolParams.setContentCharset(params, HTTP.UTF_8);

         SchemeRegistry registry = new SchemeRegistry();
         registry.register(new Scheme("http", PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 80));
         registry.register(new Scheme("https", sf, 443));

         ClientConnectionManager ccm = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(params, registry);

         return new DefaultHttpClient(ccm, params);
     } catch (Exception e) {
         return new DefaultHttpClient();
     }
}

Then you can create the HttpClient.

HttpClient httpclient = getNewHttpClient();

If you are trying to send a post request to a login page the rest of the code would be like this.

private URI url = new URI("url of the action of the form");
HttpPost httppost =  new HttpPost(url);
List nameValuePairs = new ArrayList();  
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "user"));  
nameValuePairs.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "password"));
try {
    httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
    HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
    InputStream is = entity.getContent();
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

You get the html page to the InputStream. Then you can do whatever you want with the returned html page.

But here you will face a problem. If you want to manage a session using cookies, you will not be able to do it with this method. If you want to get the cookies, you will have to do it via a browser. Then only you will receive cookies.