facing class cast error with setSSLSocketFactory between two packages

Question

I have created my own SSLSocketFactory as explained in this question

private SSLSocketFactory newSslSocketFactory() {
    try {
        // Get an instance of the Bouncy Castle KeyStore format
        KeyStore trusted = KeyStore.getInstance("BKS");
        // Get theraw resource, which contains the keystore with
        // your trusted certificates (root and any intermediate certs)
        Context context = this.activity;
        Resources _resources = context.getResources();
        InputStream in = _resources.openRawResource(R.raw.mystore);
        try {
            // Initialize the keystore with the provided trusted certificates
            // Also provide the password of the keystore
            trusted.load(in, "mypassword".toCharArray());
        } finally {
            in.close();
        }
        // Pass the keystore to the SSLSocketFactory. The factory is responsible
        // for the verification of the server certificate.
        SSLSocketFactory sf = new SSLSocketFactory(trusted);
        // Hostname verification from certificate

        sf.setHostnameVerifier(SSLSocketFactory.STRICT_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
        return sf;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new AssertionError(e);
    }
}

Actually i need to set this SSLSocketFactory on the HttpsURLConnection before connecting. But when i try to set it on HttpsURLConnection by calling

(HttpsURLConnection )connection.setSSLSocketFactory(trusted);

At this point am facing cast class error between 2 packages org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory and javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory.

How to solve this?

Please post the full stacktrace of the exception. – President James K. Polk Aug 24 '11 at 00:13 — President James K. Polk, Aug 24 '11 at 00:13

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 08 '13 at 15:38

Am not getting any exception with the above piece of code.

But the problem is that, when am trying to set the SSLSocketFactory on the HttpsURLConnection using:

(HttpsURLConnection )connection.setSSLSocketFactory(trusted)

It is showing "The method setSSLSocketFactory(SSLSocketFactory) in the type HttpsURLConnection is not applicable for the arguments(SSLSocketFactory)".

Because the method setSSLSocketFactory is there in both the packages.

facing class cast error with setSSLSocketFactory between two packages

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