Messing with Java SSL I Created keystore using this command: $ keytool -genkeypair -alias newkey -keystore someKeyStore ==== Keystore looks like this: $ keytool -list -keystore someKeyStore Enter keystore password: Keystore type: JKS Keystore provider: SUN Your keystore contains 1 entry newkey, Jan 7, 2013, PrivateKeyEntry, Certificate fingerpri…

HTTPSTest.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

public class HTTPSTest {

    // stolen from https://secure.marumoto.us/motowiki/tiki-index.php?page=Test+a+Java+SSL+connection

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        if (args.length == 0) {
            System.out.println("Usage: java HTTPSClient host");
            return;
        }

        int port = 443; // default https port
        String host = args[0];
        if (host.contains(":")) {
            String[] parts = StringUtils.split(host, ":");
            host = parts[0];
            port = Integer.valueOf(parts[1]);
        }
        System.out.println("Connecting to host '" + host + "' port " + Integer.toString(port));

        try {
            // Security.addProvider(new com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider());
            SSLSocketFactory factory = (SSLSocketFactory) SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();

            SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(host, port);

            Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
            // https requires the full URL in the GET line
            out.write("GET / HTTP/1.0\\r\\\n");
            out.write("\\r\\n");
            out.flush();

            // read response
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
            int c;
            while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
                System.out.write(c);
            }

            out.close();
            in.close();
            socket.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println(e);
        }
    }
}