Using HttpClient with SSL and certificates

Question

While I\'ve been familiar with HTTPS and the concept of SSL, I have recently begun some development and found I am a little confused.

The requirement was that I write a

Answer 1

The keystore holds your private keys and associated certificates. The truststore hold the certificates that you trust and that can therefore be used for certificate path building and verification.

Here are some links that may be useful:

java.lang.Exception: Input not an X.509 certificate

Import private key and certificate into Java Key Store

Configuring Keystores and Truststores

Answer 2

make sure your certificate file does not have anything before and after these.

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----

-----END CERTIFICATE-----