SSLException: untrusted server cert chain
I'm trying to verify my system is up. It's accessed only via HTTPS. I got everything working but get the dreaded untrusted cert error. I just want to send a quick message and get back a quick answer. Is there a way to circumvent the cert chain error? That is, I don't care if the site is not a trusted CA, I just want to get connected.I saw a reference to TrustManager but there is a pile of code associated with it that doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone know how circumvent the cert chain error without writing a pile of code?
Heres the point (and you most likeyl know all these details. but still for the sake of completeness)...
HTTPS protocol signifies usage of SSL. So the underlying sockets are secure sockets i.e SSL enabled sockets.
These sockets encrypt information that is being sent out through them and decrypt information being received through them. Its this encryption of information that leads to the term secured server
The side encryption
Ignore previous message. Mistakenly posted incomplete.
Use this instead...
Heres the point (and you most likeyl know all these details. but still for the sake of completeness)...
HTTPS protocol signifies usage of SSL. So the underlying sockets are secure sockets i.e SSL enabled sockets.
These sockets encrypt information that is being sent out through them and decrypt information being received through them. Its this encryption of information that leads to the term secured server
The side sending information encrypts and the side receiving information decrypts.
For decrypting information that the other side has encrypted, the public key is required.
The server certificate that the server presents to the client wraps the public key that is consumed to decrypt.
The authenticity of this wrapper certificate is sgined/guranteed by a well known Certificate signing Authority (CA) by including their well trusted certificate(which is in turn their own well trusted public key) in the wrapper certificate.
The client has to be able to accept this second level certificate of the CA for the client and server to successfully negotiate and decide on a key pair in runtime.
So in short, the client should already be aware of that trusted CA's certificate. In fact, the client being aware before hand of the concerned CA's certificate is the basic premise of security in SSL comm.
