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Java: server certificate retrieval via SSL connection on JLDAP

rohit.dantas@gmail.com

2006-05-24, 7:07 pm

Hi everyone,

I am trying to set up a LDAP connection to my LDAP server using the
JLDAP libraries. I am using SSL to partially secure the connection and
this requires that I define the server certificate in my local
truststore. What I would like to do (as one may see in programs such as
LDAP Browser), is to check if the certificate is available for the
server on the local machine and then:

1) If the certificate is available use it to set up the SSL LDAP
connection.

OR

2) If the certificate is NOT available, then download it from the
server and retry the construction of the SSL connection using the
downloaded certificate.

My question is: how do I go about point 2)? What mechanisms can I use
(in java) to retrieve the certificate from the server and store it to a
local file?

Thanks for your help,
Rohit

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