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

This is what I am doing. It simply doesn't check the certificate anymore.

// always verify the host - dont check for certificate
final static HostnameVerifier DO_NOT_VERIFY = new HostnameVerifier() {
    public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
        return true;
    }
};

/**
 * Trust every server - dont check for any certificate
 */
private static void trustAllHosts() {
    // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
    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 {
        }
    } };

    // Install the all-trusting trust manager
    try {
        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
        sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
        HttpsURLConnection
                .setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

and

    HttpURLConnection http = null;

    if (url.getProtocol().toLowerCase().equals("https")) {
        trustAllHosts();
        HttpsURLConnection https = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        https.setHostnameVerifier(DO_NOT_VERIFY);
        http = https;
    } else {
        http = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    }

Answer 2

If you are using a StartSSL or Thawte certificate, it will fail for Froyo and older versions. You can use a newer version's CAcert repository instead of trusting every certificate.

Answer 3

None of these worked for me (aggravated by the Thawte bug as well). Eventually I got it fixed with Self-signed SSL acceptance on Android and Custom SSL handling stopped working on Android 2.2 FroYo