CXF RESTful Client - How to do trust all certs?

Question

I have written Jersey RESTful clients that made use of a Dumb X509TrustManager and HostnameVerifier to trust all SSL certs on our lab systems to make it easier to deal with certs that are self-signed.

        ClientConfig config = new DefaultClientConfig();
        SSLContext context = null;
        try
        {
            context = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
            context.init(null,
                    new TrustManager[] { new DumbX509TrustManager() },
                    null);
            config.getProperties()
                    .put(HTTPSProperties.PROPERTY_HTTPS_PROPERTIES,
                            new HTTPSProperties(this.getHostnameVerifier(),
                                    context));
            webClient = Client.create(config);
        }
        ....

Is there a way for me to do something similar using CXF?

Answer 1

This is from the CXF mailing list. Note that I didn't have to implement it due to other system updates, so this is theoretical:

WebClient webClient = WebClient.create(this.serviceURL,
    this.username,
    this.password,
    null); // Spring config file - we don't use this

if (trustAllCerts)
{
    HTTPConduit conduit = WebClient.getConfig(webClient)
        .getHttpConduit();

    TLSClientParameters params = 
        conduit.getTlsClientParameters();

    if (params == null) 
    {
        params = new TLSClientParameters();
        conduit.setTlsClientParameters(params);
    }

    params.setTrustManagers(new TrustManager[] { new
        DumbX509TrustManager() }); 

    params.setDisableCNCheck(true);
}