Java SSLHandshakeException with self-signed certificate
<p>I am trying to access local https site with self-signed certificate. I modified the hostfile and I assigned an Ip address to my localsite; the code I am using to get to the site:</p>

<pre><code> String httpsURL = "https://test-ssl.com";
    URL myurl = new URL(httpsURL);
    HttpsURLConnection con = (HttpsURLConnection)myurl.openConnection();
    InputStream ins = con.getInputStream();
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(ins);
    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(isr);

    String inputLine;

    while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
    {
      System.out.println(inputLine);
    }

    in.close();
  }
</code></pre>

<p>and I am getting this Error Message:</p>

<pre><code>Exception in thread "main" javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
    at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
    at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1904)
</code></pre>

<p>I have imported the self-signed certificate into the keystore using following this command:</p>

<pre><code>keytool -import -alias site-ssl -keystore cacerts -file site-ssl.com.cer
</code></pre>

<p>Certificate was imported successfully </p>

<p>what am I missing here? </p>