How to get source of html page from a https adress in java

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I am trying to implement a download manager in java for rapidshare, I am using the rapidshare API.
The problem is that for example if you go to the following link it redirects to a https page, but then when I read the content it always return me null in the InputStream When I try to put a https link in the HttpURLConnection it always throws an exeption

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path     validation failed: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Path does not chain with any of the trust anchors

Have you tried using its direct subclass, javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection? — Jeremy Roman, Jul 27 '11 at 00:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 27 '11 at 00:58

Use Apache Commons HTTPUtils . You can make a connection to HTTPS (thereby decrypting it) if you override the DefaultTrustManager class (to do nothing), create a new TrustManager with it, then bypass the hostname verifier with ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER. Since your opening the connection to a place that you trust, there isn't a problem bypassing these things.

How to get source of html page from a https adress in java

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