Does anyone have any friendly tips on how to perform client authentication via an x509 certificate using HTTPClient 4.0.1?
Here is some code to get you going. The KeyStore
is the object that contains the client certificate. If the server is using a self-signed certificate or a certificate that isn't signed by a CA as recognized by the JVM in the included cacerts file then you will need to use a TrustStore
. Otherwise to use the default cacerts file, pass in null
to SSLSockeFactory
for the truststore argument..
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.Scheme;
import org.apache.http.conn.scheme.SchemeRegistry;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.tsccm.ThreadSafeClientConnManager;
import org.apache.http.params.BasicHttpParams;
import org.apache.http.params.HttpParams;
...
final HttpParams httpParams = new BasicHttpParams();
// load the keystore containing the client certificate - keystore type is probably jks or pkcs12
final KeyStore keystore = KeyStore.getInstance("pkcs12");
InputStream keystoreInput = null;
// TODO get the keystore as an InputStream from somewhere
keystore.load(keystoreInput, "keystorepassword".toCharArray());
// load the trustore, leave it null to rely on cacerts distributed with the JVM - truststore type is probably jks or pkcs12
KeyStore truststore = KeyStore.getInstance("pkcs12");
InputStream truststoreInput = null;
// TODO get the trustore as an InputStream from somewhere
truststore.load(truststoreInput, "truststorepassword".toCharArray());
final SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry();
schemeRegistry.register(new Scheme("https", new SSLSocketFactory(keystore, keystorePassword, truststore), 443));
final DefaultHttpClient httpClient = new DefaultHttpClient(new ThreadSafeClientConnManager(httpParams, schemeRegistry), httpParams);
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