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Java: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target

Asked 2011-08-02T08:04:30.083
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I have a class that will download a file from a https server. When I run it, it returns a lot of errors. It seems that I have a problem with my certificate. Is it possible to ignore the client-server authentication? If so, how?

package com.da;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIUtils;
import org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.DefaultHttpAsyncClient;
import org.apache.http.nio.IOControl;
import org.apache.http.nio.client.HttpAsyncClient;
import org.apache.http.nio.client.methods.AsyncCharConsumer;
import org.apache.http.nio.client.methods.HttpAsyncGet;
import org.apache.http.nio.client.methods.HttpAsyncPost;

public class RSDDownloadFile {
    static FileOutputStream fos;

    public void DownloadFile(String URI, String Request) throws Exception
    {
        java.net.URI uri = URIUtils.createURI("https", "176.66.3.69:6443", -1, "download.aspx",
                "Lang=EN&AuthToken=package", null);
        System.out.println("URI Query: " + uri.toString());

        HttpAsyncClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpAsyncClient();
        httpclient.start();
        try {
            Future<Boolean> future = httpclient.execute(
                    new HttpAsyncGet(uri),
                    new ResponseCallback(), null);

            Boolean result = future.get();
            if (result != null && result.booleanValue()) {
                System.out.println("\nRequest successfully executed");
            } else {
                System.out.println("Request failed");
            }              
        } 
        catch(Exception e){
            System.out.println("[DownloadFile] Exception: " + e.getMessage());
        }
        finally {
            System.out.println("Shutting down");
            httpclient.shutdown();
        }
        System.out.println("Done"
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The problem appears when your server has self signed certificate. To workaround it you can add this certificate to the list of trusted certificates of your JVM.

In this article author describes how to fetch the certificate from your browser and add it to cacerts file of your JVM. You can either edit JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts file or run you application with -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore parameter. Verify which JDK/JRE you are using too as this is often a source of confusion.

See also: How are SSL certificate server names resolved/Can I add alternative names using keytool? If you run into java.security.cert.CertificateException: No name matching localhost found exception.

answered 2012-08-27T17:42:46.943

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