How to SSL with Http Client and Spring WS
Posted on August 25, 2011 in Development, Java
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In the previous post I wrote about some SSL common issues in Java. One of them, the most popular in my opinion, points out to a flexible way to make ssl connections using Jakarta Commons Http Client 3.1 without any static call. This is a good choice if your client has to communicate with two or more different hosts using different keystores or truststores.
Basically, you have to use a specific HostConfiguration and a given ProtocolSocketFactory implementation within your HttpClient object. I found out that the HostConfiguration has to contain the name of the host you want to communicate with, while the HttpMethod object must contain a relative path, otherwise the HostConfiguration will be overridden at runtime with the default one. And what about doing the same to make a web service call through Spring Web Services?
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