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Writing a Custom SSL TrustManager for Eclipse [message #605239]

Wed, 24 March 2010 17:17

Saminda Wijeratne

Messages: 16
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I'm writing a plugin inorder to handle ssl certificates manually where user is prompted to verify invalid ssl certificates. In eclipse the default is the JRE trust manager which is most of the time com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl. I wrote my own trustmanager and it works fine with a normal java program. But when I tried to plug it to the JVM of the running eclipse through a plugin it doesn't work. Following is the code I use to setup the trustmanager.

SSLContext sc;
try {
TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{new EclipseSWTTrustManager(shell)};
sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFa ctory());
HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(allHostsValid) ;
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

eventhough the above code executes without a single exception my trustmanager class (EclipseSWTTrustManager) never gets triggered. the default trustmanager gets triggered. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Saminda

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Re: Writing a Custom SSL TrustManager for Eclipse [message #605301 is a reply to message #605239]

Sun, 28 March 2010 07:42

Saminda Wijeratne

Messages: 16
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I still couldn't find a solution for what I want to do, but foundout that I need to set the sslsocketfactory also. And inside the socket factory we set the trust manager as above. Following is the way I setup sslsocketfactory

java.security.Security.setProperty("ssl.SocketFactory.provider ","abc.DummySSLSocketFactory");

abc.DummySSLSocketFactory is the fully qualified name of the class I have in my plugin which implements the socketfactory. This time it seemed to be the correct path because whenever I was trying to access a url from where ever in my plugin code a class not found exception is thrown for abc.DummySSLSocketFactory class.

So the problem has boiled down to why the class loader cannot locate the class. I'm exported the abc package from the bundle, and even I put the abc.DummySSLSocketFactory in a separate extention bundle for the system bundle (thinking that the classloader was unable to see classes inside other bundles), but still i get the class not found error.

So now its a classloading issue only (hopefully). Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Writing a Custom SSL TrustManager for Eclipse [message #605818 is a reply to message #605301]

Wed, 19 May 2010 11:37

No real name

Messages: 2
Registered: May 2010

Junior Member

Hi, Am facing exactly the same issue you have posted in your first message. I have created new TrustManager and Provider implementation. But while SSLSocket creation happens, its loading my trust manager implementation.
Were you able to reach anywhere in the problem

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Re: Writing a Custom SSL TrustManager for Eclipse [message #605820 is a reply to message #605818]

Wed, 19 May 2010 12:51

Saminda Wijeratne

Messages: 16
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Nop. never had the time to look at it again. I cant exactly think of a starting point to crack this issue other than debugging the eclipse source. Will update this thread if I find somethign useful. Hope u'll get luckier.

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