Does RESTeasy client support TLS/SSL? - rest

Question

I'm using several RESTful webservice in JAVA based web-application. I'm using the RESTeasy client to access my webservice. Here all communication between the client and service is through XML(JAX-B xml annotated detail classes). Here are the following codes
String serviceURL = "https://service.company.com/Service/getService"
ServiceRequestDetail serviceRequestDetail = getServiceRequestAsDetailClass();
ServiceResponseDetail serviceResponseDetail = new ServiceResponseDetail();
ClientRequest clientRequest = new ClientRequest(serviceURL);
clientRequest.accept(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
clientRequest.body(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML, serviceRequestDetail);
ClientResponse<ServiceRequestDetail> response =
clientRequest.post(ServiceRequestDetail.class);
if (response.getStatus() != 200) {
throw new RuntimeException("Failed : HTTP error code : " +
response.getStatus());
}
ServiceResponseDetail serviceResponseDetail =
response.getEntity(ServiceResponseDetail.class);
and when I try to access my service I get the "Peer not Authenticated" error
javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated
...
Is there any way to add the SSL configuration details in the RESTeasy client? any other suggestions for solving this issue is also welcome
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I found out the answer but I'm really sorry for the late response.
To answer my question, RESTeasy client does support TLS/SSL. Infact the problem was I missed to install the certificate into the JVM.
keytool -import -alias <Replace certificate Alias name> -keystore $JAVA_HOME\jre\lib\security\cacerts -file <Replace your Certificate file location>
This solved the issue of "Peer Not Authenticated". Hope it helps. Kudos

Answer 2

If you don't want to add certificate to JVM and keep this cert separate. You can load the cert as part of your code like below.
// load the certificate
InputStream fis = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("file/path/to/your/certificate.crt");
CertificateFactory cf = CertificateFactory.getInstance("X.509");
Certificate cert = cf.generateCertificate(fis);
// load the keystore that includes self-signed cert as a "trusted" entry
KeyStore keyStore = KeyStore.getInstance(KeyStore.getDefaultType());
keyStore.load(null, null);
TrustManagerFactory tmf = TrustManagerFactory.getInstance(TrustManagerFactory.getDefaultAlgorithm());
keyStore.setCertificateEntry("cert-alias", cert);
tmf.init(keyStore);
SSLContext ctx = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
ctx.init(null, tmf.getTrustManagers(), null);`
then attach to rest easy builder like
resteasyClientBuilder.sslContext(sslContext)