Ignoring Certs for Testing

Had an issue while using XFire (legacy version of CXF), where I needed to access a website using ssl but that had a self-signed cert. The Protocol constructor is depreciated, but for testing purposes works fine.

Example

//protocol=https, etc
protected static void ignoreCertsFor(String protocol, int port){
  Protocol.registerProtocol(protocol, new Protocol(protocol, new EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory(), port));
}

EasySSLProtocolSocketFactory basically uses a "null" implementation of a X509TrustManager.

"null" X509TrustManager Example

new X509TrustManager() {

  public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
  }

  public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) {
  }

  public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
    return null;
  }
};

See Also:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2301548/calling-axis2-web-service-from-xfire-client-the-endpoint-reference-epr-for-the