Spring Boot SSL Client

Question

I am new to Spring Boot. So far I am enjoying it. I have developed a demo SSL rest web server that correctly handles mutual X.509 certificate authentication. Using an IE browser with self signed client & server certificates, I have tested that the demo rest web server is working correctly -- both the server and browser are successfully exchanging and validating each others certificates.

I am having trouble finding an SSL client example that shows how to include the client certificate and issue the https. Anybody have a simple rest client example that shows how to consume my ssl server?

Best Regards, Steve Mansfield

Answer

I could not get the above client submitted by Andy to work. I kept getting errors saying that "localhost != clientname". Anyways, I got this to work correctly.

 import java.io.IOException;

 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.URI;
 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;

 public class SSLClient {

      static
        {
          System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore","c:/apachekeys/client1.jks");
          System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword", "password");
          System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStore", "c:/apachekeys/client1.jks");
          System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword", "password");
       }

     public static void main(String[] args) throws HttpException, IOException {

         HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
         GetMethod method = new GetMethod();
         method.setURI(new URI("https://localhost:8443/restserver", false));
         client.executeMethod(method);

         System.out.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString());

     }

 }