Hi Mark,
I tried this recently and blogged about it here[1]. The difference in my
setup is that I was using a Spring RestTemplate (which also uses the
Apache Commons HTTPClient), so using Jersey client should work the same way.
Cheers,
Arul
[1]
http://aruld.info/accessing-restful-services-configured-with-ssl-using-resttemplate/
Mark Petrovic wrote:
> Ok, I think I may have found the answers to some of my questions. I'm
> a little panicked, and I could have spent another hour looking at list
> archives to get some of the basic answers. My apologies.
>
> Here's what I believe:
>
> 1) I happen to need a maven dependency on the jersey-apache-client:
>
> <dependency>
> <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId>
> <artifactId>jersey-apache-client</artifactId>
> <version>1.0.3.1</version>
> </dependency>
>
> 2) next install a Protocol socket factory that all HttpClient
> instances will use when the protocol is https. Do this before you
> create the first HttpClient:
>
> Protocol easyhttps = new Protocol("https", new
> EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory(), 443);
> Protocol.registerProtocol("https", easyhttps);
>
> where, per the link below, I'm using what I believe is sorta
> well-known EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory code
>
> 3) next, create the client for Jersey use:
>
> Client client;
> client = new ApacheHttpClient();
> WebResource.Builder reqBuilder =
> client.resource(uri).accept("text/plain");
> ...
>
> And away we go.
>
> Question: will this actually work? That is, will Jersey actually get
> an https client that draws from this Protocol factory? That question
> is not loaded; this code will work with plain vanilla HttpClient
> code. I'm just not sure it will work with how Jersey gets that
> underlying client.
>
> Question: I'd sorta like to not install an https protocol factory for
> all of HttpClient use. One can create clients on a per instance basis
> that use this specific protocol factory. See
> http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/javadocs/org/apache/commons/httpclient/contrib/ssl/EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory.html
> . Can I actually do this with the client ApacheHttpClient? I can't
> see any way to get at the underlying HttpClient to do the equivalent of
>
> client.getHostConfiguration().setHost("localhost", 443, easyhttps);
> per the javadoc in the link above.
> Whew. Thanks for reading this far.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sep 17, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Mark Petrovic wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have a need to create a Jersey client that is based on the Apache
>> HttpClient. Furthermore, I need to be able to provide a custom SSL
>> protocol factory so that this http client can pass client SSL
>> authentication.
>>
>> I know I've seen sample code that shows how to use HttpClient in a
>> Jersey client app, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Once I
>> have that client, I'm hoping I can wedge something like this SSL
>> protocol factory onto it:
>>
>> http://www.jdocs.com/httpclient/3.0.1/org/apache/commons/httpclient/contrib/ssl/EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory.html
>>
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark Petrovic
>> mark_at_petrovic.org
>> http://www.petrovic.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Mark Petrovic
> mark_at_petrovic.org
> http://www.petrovic.org
>
>
>
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