com.ehsbe.commons.util
Interface InvalidCertHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

JxInvalidCertHandler

public interface InvalidCertHandler

A handler, which might get attached to a LocalTrustManager to accept e.g. SSL connections with provided a certificate path, whoms validation failed.

Version:

$Revision: 440 $

Author:

Jens Elkner

Method Summary

boolean

accept(X509Certificate[] chain, CertificateException ex) Handles the invalid certificate chain and corresponding exception.

Method Detail

accept

boolean accept(X509Certificate[] chain,
               CertificateException ex)
               throws CertificateException

Handles the invalid certificate chain and corresponding exception.

Parameters:

chain - certificate chain, which could not be validated.

ex - exception thrown during validation.

Returns:

true if the calling trust manager entity should add the first certificate in the chain (aka client or server certificate) to its trusted certificate list.

Throws:

CertificateException - if the chain should be treated as invalid. In this case one should re-throw the given exception.