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How can I avoid "untrusted server cert chain"??

843811Jun 27 2001 — edited Jul 28 2001

I'm writing a Servlet that connects to an SSL-enabled site through an HttpsURLConnection, grabs a file from the server, saves it into a byte array, and sends that back to the client's web browser (the servlet is essentially acting as a proxy server for various reasons).

When I try to connect to one of our dev servers that has an SSL certificate we generated ourself (by doing mySecureConn = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection ()), I get the "untrusted server cert chain" SSLException. When I try to connect to a website that is "trusted", such as "https://www.us.buy.com/retail/computers/category.asp", it works perfectly fine.

Is there any way around the SSLException being thrown (i.e. can I connect to the un-trusted server anyway)?

Thanks.

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Dave Feltenberger
dave@pipelineinteractive.com

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