Disabling SSL Certificate Validation in Spring RestTemplate
I am having two Spring-based web apps A and B, on two different machines.
I want to make an HTTPS call from web app A to web app B, however, I am using a self-signed certificate in Machine B. So my HTTPS request fails.
How can I disable HTTPS certificate validation when using RestTemplate in Spring? I want to disable validation because both web app A and B are within the internal network, but data transfer has to happen over HTTPS
@Bean
public RestTemplate restTemplate()
throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) -> true;
SSLContext sslContext = org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts.custom()
.loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy)
.build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory csf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext);
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
.setSSLSocketFactory(csf)
.build();
HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory =
new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(requestFactory);
return restTemplate;
}
Essentially two things you need to do are use a custom TrustStrategy that trusts all certs, and also use NoopHostnameVerifier() to disable hostname verification. Here is the code, with all the relevant imports:
import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.KeyStoreException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.NoopHostnameVerifier;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.springframework.http.client.HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory;
import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
public RestTemplate getRestTemplate() throws KeyStoreException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (x509Certificates, s) -> true;
SSLContext sslContext = org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts.custom().loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy).build();
SSLConnectionSocketFactory csf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, new NoopHostnameVerifier());
CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom().setSSLSocketFactory(csf).build();
HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();
requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);
RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(requestFactory);
return restTemplate;
}
What you need to add is a custom HostnameVerifier
class bypasses certificate verification and returns true
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
});
This needs to be placed appropriately in your code.
Add my response with cookie :
public static void main(String[] args) {
MultiValueMap<String, String> params = new LinkedMultiValueMap<>();
params.add("username", testUser);
params.add("password", testPass);
NullHostnameVerifier verifier = new NullHostnameVerifier();
MySimpleClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory = new MySimpleClientHttpRequestFactory(verifier , rememberMeCookie);
ResponseEntity<String> response = restTemplate.postForEntity(appUrl + "/login", params, String.class);
HttpHeaders headers = response.getHeaders();
String cookieResponse = headers.getFirst("Set-Cookie");
String[] cookieParts = cookieResponse.split(";");
rememberMeCookie = cookieParts[0];
cookie.setCookie(rememberMeCookie);
requestFactory = new MySimpleClientHttpRequestFactory(verifier,cookie.getCookie());
restTemplate.setRequestFactory(requestFactory);
}
public class MySimpleClientHttpRequestFactory extends SimpleClientHttpRequestFactory {
private final HostnameVerifier verifier;
private final String cookie;
public MySimpleClientHttpRequestFactory(HostnameVerifier verifier ,String cookie) {
this.verifier = verifier;
this.cookie = cookie;
}
@Override
protected void prepareConnection(HttpURLConnection connection, String httpMethod) throws IOException {
if (connection instanceof HttpsURLConnection) {
((HttpsURLConnection) connection).setHostnameVerifier(verifier);
((HttpsURLConnection) connection).setSSLSocketFactory(trustSelfSignedSSL().getSocketFactory());
((HttpsURLConnection) connection).setAllowUserInteraction(true);
String rememberMeCookie = cookie == null ? "" : cookie;
((HttpsURLConnection) connection).setRequestProperty("Cookie", rememberMeCookie);
}
super.prepareConnection(connection, httpMethod);
}
public SSLContext trustSelfSignedSSL() {
try {
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
X509TrustManager tm = new X509TrustManager() {
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) throws CertificateException {
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] xcs, String string) throws CertificateException {
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
return null;
}
};
ctx.init(null, new TrustManager[] { tm }, null);
SSLContext.setDefault(ctx);
return ctx;
} catch (Exception ex) {
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
}
public class NullHostnameVerifier implements HostnameVerifier {
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
}