Using Https

[SShanker]

Hello Everybody,
Server- Apache Web Server 2.0
Tomcat 4.0.6

I am new to using https.
I need to send an URL with username and password as parameters. So I am using the URL class and with http everything works just fine.I can send this url to another server with http.
How can i send it using https?
any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Sai.

 

[sedj]

Are you currently using the HttpUrlConnection object ?

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[SShanker]

Hi Sedj,
To send the Url I am using only the URL object and Url Connection object and OutputStreamWriter Object.

But Just to Check the response code I am using the HttpUrlConnection object.

Actually I would like to know can I send an Https request without using the Browser?
If yes how can it be done?
Thanks,
Sai.

 

[sedj]

You need to use the HttpsURLConnection :

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/net/ssl/HttpsURLConnection.html

Like this :

URL url = new URL("[URL unfurl="true"]https://bla.com");[/URL]
HttpsURLConnection httpsCon = (HttpsURLConnection)url.openConnection();

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[SShanker]

Hello Sedj,
Thanks for your prompt reply. I have a doubt. Do i need to use the "setSSLSocketFactory(SSLSocketFactory sf)" method of HttpsURLConnection?
I am asking this because I tried to use a socket before I used the URL class but it didn't work for me as the firewall wouldn't allow the connection to be created using a socket.
Thanks,
Sai.