httpcomponents for https without CE

private static class DefaultTrustManager implements X509TrustManager
{
  // concept from http://hc.apache.org/index.html
  @Override
  public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
                throws CertificateException { // do nothing here }

  @Override
  public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1)
                throws CertificateException { // do nothing here }

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

Then, initialize the custom trust manager, and allow any SSL connection, regardless of its validity. We are in control of the connection here and so we don’t have anything to hide:

import java.io.*;
import import org.apache.http.*;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
import java.security.cert*;

public void SSLImgPost(String imgurl, String fileloc) throws Exception {
  if (fileloc.length() < 1)  {
    System.out.println("File path not given");
  }
  TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new DefaultTrustManager() };
  SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("TLS");
  sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());

Then, tell the SSL socket factory to nuder the SSL certificate hostname verifier :

SSLSocketFactory sf = new SSLSocketFactory( sc, SSLSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER);
  Scheme sch = new Scheme("https", 443, sf);
  httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();  // httpclient is a static reference
  httpclient.getConnectionManager().getSchemeRegistry().register(sch);

Then, follow through with reading in the file and sending it to the server with a POST:

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(imgurl);
  File file = new File(fileloc);
  InputStreamEntity reqEntity = new InputStreamEntity(new FileInputStream(file), -1);
  try {
    reqEntity.setContentType("binary/octet-stream");
    reqEntity.setChunked(true);
    httppost.setEntity(reqEntity);
    System.out.println("Executing post IMG upload " + httppost.getRequestLine());
    HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);
    HttpEntity resEntity = response.getEntity();
    System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
    System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());
    if (resEntity != null) {
      System.out.println("Response content length: " + resEntity.getContentLength());
      System.out.println("Chunked?: " + resEntity.isChunked());
    }
    EntityUtils.consume(resEntity);
    } finally {
      httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
    }
}