Access site requiring login an self-signed cert with Apache HttpClient

Question

If I want to connect to a site which requires basic authentication and also uses a self signed cert I create a CredentialsProvider which then lets me access the site.

If I want to access a site which uses a self signed cert I use the sslContextBuilder and allow all certs to be used.

Each of the both work on their own but when I try to put them together to access a site that requires login and uses a self signed cert it wont let me.

I'm sure this is just simple syntax but how do I do this?

 CloseableHttpClient hc = HttpClients.custom()
      .setSslcontext(sslcb.build())
      .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
      .build();

Answer 1

You may want to try setSSLSocketFactory instead of setSslcontext

CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.custom()
    .setSSLSocketFactory(sslsf)
    .setDefaultCredentialsProvider(credsProvider)
    .build();