How to ignore PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException?

If you want to ignore the certificate all together then take a look at the answer here: Ignore self-signed ssl cert using Jersey Client

Although this will make your app vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Or, try adding the cert to your java store as a trusted cert.This site may be helpful.http://blog.icodejava.com/tag/get-public-key-of-ssl-certificate-in-java/

Here's another thread showing how to add a cert to your store.Java SSL connect, add server cert to keystore programmatically

The key is:

KeyStore.Entry newEntry = new KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry(someCert);ks.setEntry("someAlias", newEntry, null);

I have used the below code to override the SSL checking in my project and it worked for me.

package com.beingjavaguys.testftp;import java.io.InputStreamReader;import java.io.Reader;import java.net.URL;import java.net.URLConnection;import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection;import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;import javax.net.ssl.TrustManager;import javax.net.ssl.X509TrustManager;import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;/** * Fix for 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 */public class ConnectToHttpsUrl {    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {        /* Start of Fix */        TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] { new X509TrustManager() {            public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() { return null; }            public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) { }            public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] certs, String authType) { }        } };        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");        sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());        // Create all-trusting host name verifier        HostnameVerifier allHostsValid = new HostnameVerifier() {            public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) { return true; }        };        // Install the all-trusting host verifier        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(allHostsValid);        /* End of the fix*/        URL url = new URL("https://nameofthesecuredurl.com");        URLConnection con = url.openConnection();        Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream());        while (true) {            int ch = reader.read();            if (ch == -1)                 break;            System.out.print((char) ch);        }    }}

Set validateTLSCertificates property to false for your JSoup command.

Jsoup.connect("https://google.com/").validateTLSCertificates(false).get();