在java代码中请求https链接的时候，可能会报下面这个错误
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
原因是没有证书。在浏览器中直接使用url访问是可以的，应该是浏览器之前就保存过对应的.cer证书。
解决方法有两种，从目标机器获得有效证书或者忽略证书信任问题。
一、获得目标机器有效证书
1、编译安装证书程序 javac InstallCert.java（代码如下）
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.security.KeyStore;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;
/**
* Class used to add the server's certificate to the KeyStore
* with your trusted certificates.
*/
public class InstallCert {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
String host;
int port;
char[] passphrase;
if ((args.length == 1) || (args.length == 2)) {
String[] c = args[0].split(":");
host = c[0];
port = (c.length == 1) ? 443 : Integer.parseInt(c[1]);
String p = (args.length == 1) ? "changeit" : args[1];
passphrase = p.toCharArray();
} else {
System.out.println("Usage: java InstallCert <host>[:port] [passphrase]");
return;
}
File file = new File("jssecacerts");
if (file.isFile() == false) {
char SEP = File.separatorChar;
File dir = new File(System.getProperty("java.home") + SEP
+ "lib" + SEP + "security");
file = new File(dir, "jssecacerts");
if (file.isFile() == false) {
file = new File(dir, "cacerts");
}
}
System.out.println("Loading KeyStore " + file + "...");
InputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
ks.load(in, passphrase);
in.close();
SSLContext context = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
TrustManagerFactory tmf =
TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
tmf.init(ks);
X509TrustManager defaultTrustManager = (X509TrustManager) tmf.getTrustManagers()[0];
SavingTrustManager tm = new SavingTrustManager(defaultTrustManager);
context.init(null, new TrustManager[]{tm}, null);
SSLSocketFactory factory = context.getSocketFactory();
System.out.println("Opening connection to " + host + ":" + port + "...");
SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket) factory.createSocket(host, port);
socket.setSoTimeout(10000);
try {
System.out.println("Starting SSL handshake...");
socket.startHandshake();
socket.close();
System.out.println();
System.out.println("No errors, certificate is already trusted");
} catch (SSLException e) {
System.out.println();
e.printStackTrace(System.out);
}
X509Certificate[] chain = tm.chain;
if (chain == null) {
System.out.println("Could not obtain server certificate chain");
return;
}
BufferedReader reader =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Server sent " + chain.length + " certificate(s):");
System.out.println();
MessageDigest sha1 = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1");
MessageDigest md5 = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
for (int i = 0; i < chain.length; i++) {
X509Certificate cert = chain[i];
System.out.println
(" " + (i + 1) + " Subject " + cert.getSubjectDN());
System.out.println(" Issuer " + cert.getIssuerDN());
sha1.update(cert.getEncoded());
System.out.println(" sha1 " + toHexString(sha1.digest()));
md5.update(cert.getEncoded());
System.out.println(" md5 " + toHexString(md5.digest()));
System.out.println();
}
System.out.println("Enter certificate to add to trusted keystore or 'q' to quit: [1]");
String line = reader.readLine().trim();
int k;
try {
k = (line.length() == 0) ? 0 : Integer.parseInt(line) - 1;
} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
System.out.println("KeyStore not changed");
return;
}
X509Certificate cert = chain[k];
String alias = host + "-" + (k + 1);
ks.setCertificateEntry(alias, cert);
OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("jssecacerts");
ks.store(out, passphrase);
out.close();
System.out.println();
System.out.println(cert);
System.out.println();
System.out.println
("Added certificate to keystore 'jssecacerts' using alias '"
+ alias + "'");
}
private static final char[] HEXDIGITS = "0123456789abcdef".toCharArray();
private static String toHexString(byte[] bytes) {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(bytes.length * 3);
for (int b : bytes) {
b &= 0xff;
sb.append(HEXDIGITS[b >> 4]);
sb.append(HEXDIGITS[b & 15]);
sb.append(' ');
}
return sb.toString();
}
private static class SavingTrustManager implements X509TrustManager {
private final X509TrustManager tm;
private X509Certificate[] chain;
SavingTrustManager(X509TrustManager tm) {
this.tm = tm;
}
public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
}
public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType)
throws CertificateException {
this.chain = chain;
tm.checkServerTrusted(chain, authType);
}
}
}
2、运行安装证书程序生成证书
java InstallCert baidu.com
例如：java InstalCert smtp.zhangsan.com:465 admin
如果不加参数password和host的端口号，上面的获取证书程序中默认给的端口号是：443，密码是:changeit
3、根据运行提示信息，输入1，回车，在当前目录下生成名为： jssecacerts 的证书
将证书放置到$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security目录下， 切记该JDK的jre是工程所用的环境！！！
或者：
System.setProperty(“javax.net.ssl.trustStore”, “你的jssecacerts证书路径”);
可以更改密码，在security目录下运行命令
keytool -storepasswd -new xxxcom -keystore cacerts
就可以修改密码，修改后使用命令
keytool -list -v -keystore cacerts
查看文件的信息，会提示需要密码才能查看，如果输入密码与修改后的密码匹配，说明修改成功了。
PS：至此这种方式可以成功使用ssl了，另外再补充一下，根据刚才生成的文件jssecacerts，可以生成cer文件，
命令如下
keytool -export -alias xxx.com-1 -keystore jssecacerts -rfc -file xxx.cer
如上，之前的工具类中默认命名别名是加上"-1"。使用InstallCert设置的密码需要跟cacerts文件中的密码一致，
如果修改过密码，就需要修改InstallCert类中对应的密码字符串，否则会有下面这个异常：
java.security.UnrecoverableKeyException: Password verification failed
二、忽略证书信任问题
源码：http://mengyang.iteye.com/blog/575671
一定要注意需要在connection创建之前调用文章里所述的方法，像这个样子：
trustAllHttpsCertificates();
HostnameVerifier hv = new HostnameVerifier() {
public boolean verify(String urlHostName, SSLSession session) {
return true;
}
};
HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(hv);
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
好吧，两种方法都试过有效。