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I am getting this error
detailed message sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
cause javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
i am using tomcat 6 as webserver. i have two https webbapplication installed on different tomcat on differte port but on same machine. Say App1(port 8443) and App2(port 443). App1 connects to App2 .When App1 connects to App2 i get above error. I know this is very common error so came across many solutions on different forums and sites. I have below entry in server.xml of both tomcat i.e
keystoreFile="c:/.keystore"
keystorePass="changeit"
Every site says the same reason that certificate given by app2 is not in the trusted store of app1 jvm. This seems to be true also when i tired to hit the same URL in IE browser, it works(with warming, There is a problem with this web site's security certificate. here i say continue to this website) But when same url is hit by java client(in my case). So i get the above error. So to put it in trustore i tried these tree options i.e
Option1
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "C:/.keystore");
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "changeit");
Option2 Setting below in environment variable
CATALINA_OPTS -- param name
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=C:.keystore -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit ---param value
Option3 Setting below in environment variable
JAVA_OPTS -- param name
-Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=C:.keystore -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=changeit ---param value
But nothing worked .
What at last worked is executing the java approach suggested in How to handle invalid SSL certificates with Apache HttpClient? by Pascal Thivent i.e executing the program InstallCert.
But this approach is fine for devbox setup but i can not use it at production environment.
I am wondering why three approaches mentioned above did not work when i have mentioned same values in server.xml of app2 server and same values in truststore by setting
System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "C:/.keystore") and System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "changeit");
in app1 program.
For more information this is how i am making the connection
URL url = new URL(urlStr);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
if (conn instanceof HttpsURLConnection) {
HttpsURLConnection conn1 = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn1.setHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
});
reply.load(conn1.getInputStream());
