Https Connection Android

This is what I am doing. It simply doesn't check the certificate anymore.

// always verify the host - dont check for certificate
final static HostnameVerifier DO_NOT_VERIFY = new HostnameVerifier() {
    public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
        return true;
    }
};

/**
 * Trust every server - dont check for any certificate
 */
private static void trustAllHosts() {
    // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
    TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {
        public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
            return new java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] {};
        }

        public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                String authType) throws CertificateException {
        }

        public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain,
                String authType) throws CertificateException {
        }
    } };

    // Install the all-trusting trust manager
    try {
        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
        sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
        HttpsURLConnection
                .setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

and

    HttpURLConnection http = null;

    if (url.getProtocol().toLowerCase().equals("https")) {
        trustAllHosts();
        HttpsURLConnection https = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection();
        https.setHostnameVerifier(DO_NOT_VERIFY);
        http = https;
    } else {
        http = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    }

I'm making a guess, but if you want an actual handshake to occur, you have to let android know of your certificate. If you want to just accept no matter what, then use this pseudo-code to get what you need with the Apache HTTP Client:

SchemeRegistry schemeRegistry = new SchemeRegistry ();

schemeRegistry.register (new Scheme ("http",
    PlainSocketFactory.getSocketFactory (), 80));
schemeRegistry.register (new Scheme ("https",
    new CustomSSLSocketFactory (), 443));

ThreadSafeClientConnManager cm = new ThreadSafeClientConnManager (
    params, schemeRegistry);


return new DefaultHttpClient (cm, params);

CustomSSLSocketFactory:

public class CustomSSLSocketFactory extends org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory
{
private SSLSocketFactory FACTORY = HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultSSLSocketFactory ();

public CustomSSLSocketFactory ()
    {
    super(null);
    try
        {
        SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance ("TLS");
        TrustManager[] tm = new TrustManager[] { new FullX509TrustManager () };
        context.init (null, tm, new SecureRandom ());

        FACTORY = context.getSocketFactory ();
        }
    catch (Exception e)
        {
        e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

public Socket createSocket() throws IOException
{
    return FACTORY.createSocket();
}

 // TODO: add other methods like createSocket() and getDefaultCipherSuites().
 // Hint: they all just make a call to member FACTORY 
}

FullX509TrustManager is a class that implements javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager, yet none of the methods actually perform any work, get a sample here.

Good Luck!

This is a known problem with Android 2.x. I was struggling with this problem for a week until I came across the following question, which not only gives a good background of the problem but also provides a working and effective solution devoid of any security holes.

'No peer certificate' error in Android 2.3 but NOT in 4

Sources that helped me get to work with my self signed certificate on my AWS Apache server and connect with HttpsURLConnection from android device:

SSL on aws instance - amazon tutorial on ssl
Android Security with HTTPS and SSL - creating your own trust manager on client for accepting your certificate
Creating self signed certificate - easy script for creating your certificates

Then I did the following:

1. Made sure the server supports https (sudo yum install -y mod24_ssl)
2. Put this script in a file create_my_certs.sh:

#!/bin/bash
FQDN=$1

# make directories to work from
mkdir -p server/ client/ all/

# Create your very own Root Certificate Authority
openssl genrsa \
  -out all/my-private-root-ca.privkey.pem \
  2048

# Self-sign your Root Certificate Authority
# Since this is private, the details can be as bogus as you like
openssl req \
  -x509 \
  -new \
  -nodes \
  -key all/my-private-root-ca.privkey.pem \
  -days 1024 \
  -out all/my-private-root-ca.cert.pem \
  -subj "/C=US/ST=Utah/L=Provo/O=ACME Signing Authority Inc/CN=example.com"

# Create a Device Certificate for each domain,
# such as example.com, *.example.com, awesome.example.com
# NOTE: You MUST match CN to the domain name or ip address you want to use
openssl genrsa \
  -out all/privkey.pem \
  2048

# Create a request from your Device, which your Root CA will sign
openssl req -new \
  -key all/privkey.pem \
  -out all/csr.pem \
  -subj "/C=US/ST=Utah/L=Provo/O=ACME Tech Inc/CN=${FQDN}"

# Sign the request from Device with your Root CA
openssl x509 \
  -req -in all/csr.pem \
  -CA all/my-private-root-ca.cert.pem \
  -CAkey all/my-private-root-ca.privkey.pem \
  -CAcreateserial \
  -out all/cert.pem \
  -days 500

# Put things in their proper place
rsync -a all/{privkey,cert}.pem server/
cat all/cert.pem > server/fullchain.pem         # we have no intermediates in this case
rsync -a all/my-private-root-ca.cert.pem server/
rsync -a all/my-private-root-ca.cert.pem client/

3. Run bash create_my_certs.sh yourdomain.com

4. Place the certificates in their proper place on the server (you can find configuration in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ssl.conf). All these should be set:
   SSLCertificateFile
   SSLCertificateKeyFile
   SSLCertificateChainFile
   SSLCACertificateFile

5. Restart httpd using sudo service httpd restart and make sure httpd started:
   Stopping httpd: [ OK ]
   Starting httpd: [ OK ]

6. Copy my-private-root-ca.cert to your android project assets folder

7. Create your trust manager:
   

   SSLContext SSLContext;

   CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509"); InputStream caInput = context.getAssets().open("my-private-root-ca.cert.pem"); Certificate ca; try { ca = cf.generateCertificate(caInput); } finally { caInput.close(); }

     // Create a KeyStore containing our trusted CAs
     String keyStoreType = KeyStore.getDefaultType();
     KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(keyStoreType);
     keyStore.load(null, null);
     keyStore.setCertificateEntry("ca", ca);
   
     // Create a TrustManager that trusts the CAs in our KeyStore
     String tmfAlgorithm = TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm();
     TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(tmfAlgorithm);
     tmf.init(keyStore);
   
     // Create an SSLContext that uses our TrustManager
     SSLContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
     SSSLContext.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);
   

8. And make the connection using HttpsURLConnection:

   HttpsURLConnection connection = (HttpsURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.setSSLSocketFactory(SSLContext.getSocketFactory());

9. Thats it, try your https connection.

Probably you can try something like this. This helped me

    SslContextFactory sec = new SslContextFactory();
    sec.setValidateCerts(false);
    sec.setTrustAll(true);

    org.eclipse.jetty.websocket.client.WebSocketClient client = new WebSocketClient(sec);