How to bypass ssl certificate checking in java

Question

I want access a SOAP webservice url having https hosted in a remote vm. I am getting an exception while accessing it using HttpURLConnection.

Here's my code:

import javax.net.ssl.*;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

/**
 * Created by prasantabiswas on 07/03/17.
 */
public class Main
{
    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
        try
        {
            URL url = new URL("https://myhost:8913/myservice/service?wsdl");
            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();
            }
            String SOAPAction="";
//            http.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(b.length));
            http.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
            http.setRequestProperty("SOAPAction", SOAPAction);
            http.setRequestMethod("GET");
            http.setDoOutput(true);
            http.setDoInput(true);
            OutputStream out = http.getOutputStream();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    final static HostnameVerifier DO_NOT_VERIFY = new HostnameVerifier() {
        public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
            return true;
        }
    };

    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("SSL");
            sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
            HttpsURLConnection
                    .setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

I'm getting the following exception:

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints
    at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1949)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:302)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296)
    at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1509)
    at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
    at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:914)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1062)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsClient.afterConnect(HttpsClient.java:559)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.connect(AbstractDelegateHttpsURLConnection.java:185)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream0(HttpURLConnection.java:1283)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1258)
    at sun.net.www.protocol.https.HttpsURLConnectionImpl.getOutputStream(HttpsURLConnectionImpl.java:250)
    at Main.main(Main.java:35)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.application.AppMain.main(AppMain.java:147)
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertificateException: Certificates does not conform to algorithm constraints
    at sun.security.ssl.AbstractTrustManagerWrapper.checkAlgorithmConstraints(SSLContextImpl.java:1055)
    at sun.security.ssl.AbstractTrustManagerWrapper.checkAdditionalTrust(SSLContextImpl.java:981)
    at sun.security.ssl.AbstractTrustManagerWrapper.checkServerTrusted(SSLContextImpl.java:923)
    at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1491)
    ... 18 more

Tried different solution from the google search, Non of them worked. I want to avoid using keytool because I will be running my tests on different vm.

Does anyone have any solution for this?

Answer 1

Using X509ExtendedTrustManager instead of X509TrustManager() solved the problem. Here's the example:

public void trustAllHosts()
    {
        try
        {
            TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{
                    new X509ExtendedTrustManager()
                    {
                        @Override
                        public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers()
                        {
                            return null;
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType)
                        {
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] certs, String authType)
                        {
                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] xcs, String string, Socket socket) throws CertificateException
                        {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] xcs, String string, Socket socket) throws CertificateException
                        {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] xcs, String string, SSLEngine ssle) throws CertificateException
                        {

                        }

                        @Override
                        public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] xcs, String string, SSLEngine ssle) throws CertificateException
                        {

                        }

                    }
            };

            SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
            sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());

            // Create all-trusting host name verifier
            HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new  HostnameVerifier()
            {
                @Override
                public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session)
                {
                    return true;
                }
            };
            // Install the all-trusting host verifier
            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(allHostsValid);
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            log.error("Error occurred",e);
        }
    }