[Htmlunit-user] how to ignore ssl certificate error

[Milind W <yc...@ho...>]

hi,
I am trying to connect to a website that has a expired certificate. Instead 
of fixing this by importing the self signed certificate my prefered option 
is to  ignore the message progrmatically (similar to how a user does in  a 
browser). Is there a option I can set some where in htmlunit to do this? 
preferably at the page level.

I found this thread which suggest how to do this for httpclient but my 
understanding we do not have direct access to httpclient in htmlunit.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=411937&messageID=1886339

Please help! This is a critical feature for me. At this rate hopefully I can 
cross the newbie stage pretty past :)
Thanks
-Milind

Copy of my console.

javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: 
sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:

sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find 
valid certification path to requested target
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:174)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1520)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:182)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:176)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:975)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:123)
	at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:511)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:449)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:817)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1029)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:621)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:59)
	at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65)
	at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.flushRequestOutputStream(HttpConnection.java:827)
	at

org.apache.commons.httpclient.MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager$HttpConnectionAdapter.flushRequestOutputStream(MultiThreadedHttpConnectionManager.java:1525)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.writeRequest(HttpMethodBase.java:1975)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.execute(HttpMethodBase.java:993)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:397)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeMethod(HttpMethodDirector.java:170)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:396)
	at 
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:346)
	at 
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.HttpWebConnection.getResponse(HttpWebConnection.java:126)
	at 
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.util.DebuggingWebConnection.getResponse(DebuggingWebConnection.java:107)
	at 
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseFromWebConnection(WebClient.java:1397)
	at 
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponse(WebClient.java:1354)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:330)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:397)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:384)

Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building 
failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable 
to find

valid certification path to requested target
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:285)
	at 
sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:191)
	at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:218)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:126)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:209)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:249)
	at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:954)
	... 27 more
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: 
unable to find valid certification path to requested target
	at 
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:174)
	at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:238)
	at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:280)
	... 33 more
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