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[jira] [Updated] (HTTPCLIENT-1752) Allow to configure the OSGI clients with relaxed SSL checks

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1752?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Oleg Kalnichevski updated HTTPCLIENT-1752:
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    Fix Version/s: Future

All this can already be done with a [custom SSL connection factory|http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.5.x/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/conn/socket/LayeredConnectionSocketFactory.html]. Of course, one is always welcome to contribute such implemetnation to the project.

Oleg

> Allow to configure the OSGI clients with relaxed SSL checks
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1752
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1752
>             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: HttpClient
>    Affects Versions: 4.5.2
>            Reporter: Timothee Maret
>             Fix For: Future
>
>
> In deployments other than production (e.g. dev, qa, integration testing, etc.) it is often useful to deploy self-signed certificates instead of certificates signed by a trusted CA for cost and simplicity reasons.
> By default, the http client does not validate a self signed certificate because it is not signed by a trusted CA root. 
> One way to have the http client to validate the self signed certificate is to add the self-signed certificate (or the detached CA root that signed it) in the java trustore.
> This operation is a configuration only change (no need to change code) however it typically requires accessing the FS and the scope of trust can't be easily modified at runtime.
> Another way to have the http client to validate the self signed certificate is to use the TrustSelfSignedStrategy [0] strategy when building the http client.
> This requires modifying the code.
> In order to use the second approach without modifying code, it would be interesting to allow configuring a set of URIs for which the relaxed SSL mode should be used.
> The configuration could be implemented similarly to the implementation of the central prox configuration (OSGI) in HTTPCLIENT-1238. In addition to allowing sel-signed certificates, the configuration could as well allow to skip FQDN check using the NoopHostnameVerifier [1].
> Of course, this feature *must not* be deployed in production environment as it is totally insecure.
> [0] https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/TrustSelfSignedStrategy.html
> [1] https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/httpclient/apidocs/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/NoopHostnameVerifier.html



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