How do i get ion library to trust self signed certificates

Question

I am trying to connect to REST Service that has to use self signed certificates (it's a Unify PBXs Web Services Interface). The System will regenerate it's Certificates on Software updates and unless you load a certificate into the system there will always be a self signed one. When trying to connect with ion the connection is closed because of the self signed certificate (as far as google took me...). What do i need to add to my implementation to make io accept this cert? I am using ion as follows.

Ion.with(context)
     .load(...)
     .asString()
     .setCallback(new FutureCallback<String>() {
           @Override
           public void onCompleted(Exception e, String result) {
           }
      });

Answer 1

You can specify custom SSL Contexts and trust managers to use self signed certificates.

Here's an example from a unit test:

public void testKeys() throws Exception {
    KeyManagerFactory kmf = KeyManagerFactory.getInstance("X509");
    KeyStore ks = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());

    ks.load(getContext().getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.keystore), "storepass".toCharArray());
    kmf.init(ks, "storepass".toCharArray());


    TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
    KeyStore ts = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
    ts.load(getContext().getResources().openRawResource(R.raw.keystore), "storepass".toCharArray());
    tmf.init(ts);

    SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
    sslContext.init(kmf.getKeyManagers(), tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);

    AsyncHttpServer httpServer = new AsyncHttpServer();
    httpServer.listenSecure(8888, sslContext);
    httpServer.get("/", new HttpServerRequestCallback() {
        @Override
        public void onRequest(AsyncHttpServerRequest request, AsyncHttpServerResponse response) {
            response.send("hello");
        }
    });

    Thread.sleep(1000);

    AsyncHttpClient.getDefaultInstance().getSSLSocketMiddleware().setSSLContext(sslContext);
    AsyncHttpClient.getDefaultInstance().getSSLSocketMiddleware().setTrustManagers(tmf.getTrustManagers());
    AsyncHttpClient.getDefaultInstance().executeString(new AsyncHttpGet("https://localhost:8888/"), null).get();
}

You'll need to access ion's underlying http client instance as follows:

Ion.getDefault(getContext()).getHttpClient().getSSLSocketMiddleware().setTrustManagers(...);
Ion.getDefault(getContext()).getHttpClient().getSSLSocketMiddleware().setSSLContext(...);

The key is a bks key store, bouncy castle.