using certificates at runtime

[Kalpesh Soni]

Hi
I need a simle java client that talks over https using a server certificate from a specified

All jsse documentation that I see talks about keytool and all
What if I have the cer file and I want to use it at run time.
i.e. i ll say that my cert is lying in c:\xyz\abc.cer and now try to connect to https://abc.com

Is this possible using jsse ?

[Kalpesh Soni]

I have used weblogic security classes

weblogic.security.PEMInputStream
weblogic.security.SSL.HostnameVerifier
weblogic.security.SSL.SSLContext
weblogic.security.SSL.TrustManager

earlier to achieve similar things, using wl 6.1

Just wondering whether j2se1.4 has some "standard" way of doing this

[Peter den Haan]

I've never tried to do this, but the trust manager infrastructure is part of standard JSSE: see TrustManagerFactory and friends. It's described in more detail in the JSSE guide which is part of the J2SE development kit documentation.

- Peter