Just try creating a new SSLSocket() and connecting directly to the port. Then use SSLSocket.getSession().getPeerCertificates().
So if I wanted the certificate chain from "https://gmail.com";, I would do: SSLSocket s = new SSLSocket( "gmail.com", 443 ); Certificate[] certs = s.getSession().getPeerCertificates(); If you want to deal with self-signed certs, and other challenging SSL situations, take a look at using other SSLSocketFactories (or writing your own). Here are some: http://juliusdavies.ca/commons-ssl/ But you have a point. It would be nice to extract that stuff directly from httpclient classes. yours, Julius On 10/12/06, Jason Blumenkrantz < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to use HttpClient (version 3.0.1) to present my end users with the SSL certificate for a particular website for visual inspection. I'm plugging in the EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory and EasyX509TrustManager in order to connect to sites using self-signed certificates, but I haven't had any luck figuring out how to get the certificate chain for a particular URL after executing a GetMethod on that URL. Using the JSSE HttpsURLConnection I can call getServerCertificates() to return the certificate chain for a site, what would be the equivalent for HttpClient? Thanks in advance, Jason Blumenkrantz [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
