I need to test a REST endpoint that runs on localhost with https /ssl (can't change that to http unfortunately). The problem is that since it's for testing purposes it only contains a self signed certificate which Java doesn't like.
To make it work I tried to allow localhost as hostname:
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(
new javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier(){
public boolean verify(String hostname,
javax.net.ssl.SSLSession sslSession) {
if (hostname.equals("localhost")) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
and further added the self signed certificate to my keystore.
But I'm still getting the following error:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
Does anyone know what else to do except for disabling the whole ssl validation process?
