Do yourself a favor and understand the changes to the JVM when it comes to
supporting localhost / loopback / ip-literals with TLS.

Eg: Newer JVMs do not support TLS on those kinds of endpoints.

Joakim Erdfelt / [email protected]


On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 7:07 AM Maarten Boekhold <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Simone, (apologies for replying to you one-on-one the first time),
> Thanks for your response.
>
> On 13/03/2023 14:18, Simone Bordet wrote:
>
> See
> https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/documentation/jetty-11/programming-guide/index.html#pg-client-http-configuration-tls.
>
>
> It works when you disable the EndpointIdentificationAlgorithm.
>
> ...
>
> As an alternative to the above, we replace the 
> "sslContextFactory.hostnameVerifier()" call with:
>
> sslContextFactory.setEndpointIdentificationAlgorithm(null);
>
> With this change, we did not receive the CertificateExceptions anymore.
>
> Question 2: we are worried that this doesn't only disable the hostname check, 
> but also disables the check if the certificate was issued by a trusted CA.
>
> That is not the case, at least for the OpenJDK implementation.
>
> I recommend that if you need to do custom server name checks, you set
> EndpointIdentificationAlgorithm=null, *but* you set the
> hostnameVerifier, and verify that the server name is what you expect.
>
> This is actually what led us to this second question. The documentation
> says:
>
> However, requests made to sites (typically localhost) that have an invalid
> (for example, expired or with a wrong host) or self-signed certificate will
> fail (like they will in a browser).
>
> Certificate validation is performed at two levels: at the TLS
> implementation level (in the JDK) and, optionally, at the application level.
>
> By default, certificate validation at the TLS level is enabled, while
> certificate validation at the application level is disabled.
>
> You can configure the SslContextFactory.Client to skip certificate
> validation at the TLS level:
>
> This seems to suggest that disabling the endpoint identification *also*
> disables checks on the certificate such as expiration date and CA
> signatory.
> Regards, Maarten
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