HttpClient - ssl - unable to find valid certification path to requested target

The javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target usually stands for issues with accepting/validating SSL/TLS certificate given by web server. ClientHandshaker class is responsible for handshaking from the client side. It shares common logic such control flow and key generation with its counterpart ServerHandshaker though common parent class called Handshaker.

void processMessage(byte type, int messageLen) throws IOException {
 ...
 switch (type) {
 ...
 case HandshakeMessage.ht_certificate:
       if (keyExchange == K_DH_ANON || keyExchange == K_ECDH_ANON
                    || keyExchange == K_KRB5 || keyExchange == K_KRB5_EXPORT) {
                fatalSE(Alerts.alert_unexpected_message,
                    "unexpected server cert chain");
                // NOTREACHED
            }
            this.serverCertificate(new CertificateMsg(input));
            serverKey =
                session.getPeerCertificates()[0].getPublicKey();
            break;

Let's go briefly to the details 1. Creating CerificateMsg just takes input as a HandshakeInStream, reads first 24 bytes as a chainLenght, so can read the cert as a byte array and finally instantiates X.509 certificate, as below

cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
cf.generateCertificate(new ByteArrayInputStream(cert)

2. serverCertificate method will deletegate cerificate validation to the Trust Manager taken from sslContext. To solve the error the sslcontext have to be feeded with TrustStrategy that accepts self-sighed cerificates as trusted. Apache Http Client comes with org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustSelfSignedStrategy to do so.

HttpClients.custom()
                .setSSLSocketFactory(new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(SSLContextBuilder.create()
      .loadTrustMaterial(TrustSelfSignedStrategy.INSTANCE)
      .build(), NoopHostnameVerifier.INSTANCE))
                .build();

Java - how to encode url right

Surprisingly its not an easy thing to encode URL once one wanted to make a request with Apache HttpClient. since most obvious URLEncode seems does not work well, though. URI baseUri = new URI("http://localhost:8090"); baseUri.getScheme(); URI path = new URI("http", null, "localhost", 8090, url, null, null);

Bash - how to do string split

STR=A.B.C && STR2=${STR%.*} && echo ${STR2%.*} && echo ${STR2#*.} && STR4=${STR#*.} && echo ${STR4#*.}

DELIMITER='.' && STR=A.B.C && echo ${STR%${DELIMITER}*}

for i in $(echo A.B.C | sed -e 's/\./ /g'); do echo $i; done

bash - how to check if string starts with specific prefix

Let's assume we want to process only files that start with specific string (eg. 2018). Our script is listening to every new file appeared in given directory, so let's assume we cannot do this at the os level directly. Our script is invoking the following command:

$ convert.sh /path/to/2018_file.pdf 

To process all files begins with 2018 we can do this way:

for i in `ls`; do [[ $i == 2018* ]] && echo $i; done

Or, if we'd like to process all but 2018 files we can do this way:

for i in `ls`; do [[ $i != 2018* ]] && echo $i; done

Or even more general with help of regexp we can do

for i in `ls`; do [[ $i =~ ^2018 ]] && echo $i; done

Happy New Year!!