Connecting to secured remote AEM repository - aem

Question

In order to create JCR nodes, We are trying to programmatically connect to a remote AEM instance using the JcrUtils.getRepository(...) method to acquire the handle to the repository instance.
This instance is secured and checks for a cookie in the request to let the user in.
Is there a way to pass the cookie to JcrUtils (or other methods of connecting to an AEM repository)?
Right now, when running the code JcrUtils.getRepository("http://host:port/crx/server"); it just throws the following exception:
javax.jcr.RepositoryException: Unable to access a repository with the following settings:
org.apache.jackrabbit.repository.uri: https://<host>:<port>/crx/server
The following RepositoryFactory classes were consulted:
org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2dav.Jcr2davRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi.Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.JndiRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryFactoryImpl: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.rmi.repository.RmiRepositoryFactory: failed
because of RemoteRuntimeException: java.rmi.RemoteException: Failed to read the resource at URL https://<host>:<port>/crx/server; nested exception is:
java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 3C21444F
because of RemoteException: Failed to read the resource at URL https://<host>:<port>/crx/server; nested exception is:
java.io.StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 3C21444F
because of StreamCorruptedException: invalid stream header: 3C21444F
Perhaps the repository you are trying to access is not available at the moment.
at org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.JcrUtils.getRepository(JcrUtils.java:223)
at org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.JcrUtils.getRepository(JcrUtils.java:263)
...

Answer 1

There is no way to pass cookie via JcrUtils.getRepository(...) it accepts URI as a string.
In your logs looks like org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2dav.Jcr2davRepositoryFactory doesn't exist in application classpath.
Make sure you added to dependencies following libs
jackrabbit-jcr-commons
jackrabbit-jcr2dav
in case you are using Maven:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
<artifactId>jackrabbit-jcr-commons</artifactId>
<version>2.10.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
<artifactId>jackrabbit-jcr2dav</artifactId>
<version>2.10.1</version>
</dependency>

Answer 2

I am getting similar issue as #user3239244 but only in case of https.
I am trying to access repository from standalone java application
repository = JcrUtils.getRepository(url)
Works for http and fails for https
From logs:
javax.jcr.RepositoryException: Unable to access a repository with the
following settings:
org.apache.jackrabbit.repository.uri: https://localhost:5433/crx/server The following RepositoryFactory
classes were consulted:
org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2dav.Jcr2davRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.jcr2spi.Jcr2spiRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.commons.JndiRepositoryFactory: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.core.RepositoryFactoryImpl: declined
org.apache.jackrabbit.rmi.repository.RmiRepositoryFactory: failed
because of RepositoryException: Failed to read the resource at URL https://localhost:5433/crx/server
because of SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed:
sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to
find valid certification path to requested target
because of ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to
find valid certification path to requested target
because of SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target