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CertPathBuilderException from Plugin [message #52245]

Fri, 27 March 2009 01:21

Chris

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I'm developing an Eclipse plugin that makes a REST call over https. The
SSL certificate on the server is not valid, changes frequently, and and
will remain that way. To compensate, I have added the following code,
which works when I run test cases (outside of the Eclipse plugin
environment).

Security.addProvider(new MyProvider());
Security.setProperty("ssl.TrustManagerFactory.algorithm",TrustAllCertificates ");

When I run the code as an eclipse plugin, I get I long stack trace, at the
bottom of which is:
Caused by: java.security.cert.CertPathBuilderException: unable to find
valid certification path to requested target
at
com.ibm.security.cert.PKIXCertPathBuilderImpl.buildCertPath( PKIXCertPathBuilderImpl.java:379)
at
com.ibm.security.cert.PKIXCertPathBuilderImpl.engineBuild(PK IXCertPathBuilderImpl.java:195)
at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.jav a:215)
at com.ibm.jsse2.util.f.b(f.java:80)
... 31 more

The stack trace is the same as the one I get when I don't include the
compensating code and run as a test. Why am I getting different results in
the plugin environment? Are there any workarounds?

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