Java HTTP request fails with “javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: peer not authenticated”
Searching the above-mentioned stack trace reveals lots and lots of results, unsurprisingly. Most results are workarounds where you modify the code, but what about if an application (like Jenkins/Hudson CI, in my case) throws this error at you? The reason the error is occurring is because the SSL certificate of the target you’re connecting to isn’t considered valid by your Java instance’s keystore. This may be because the certificate itself is invalid, or, in my case, the CA chain couldn’t be validated (my OS is RHEL (Red Hat) 5.7, with OpenJDK 1.6). For …