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Android making https requests with SSL from GoDaddy – No peer certificate error

Another hair pulling session that all ended well.

Task:

Make a secure call to a server using a httprequest and get the httpresponse for further processing.

Android http request and response:

HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet req = new HttpGet("https://www.example.com");
HttpResponse res = client.execute(req);

Error:

javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: No peer certificate

Problem:

The issue is that cert from GoDaddy was installed but not installed completely. An Intermediate cert is required for the server/domain in order to have a fully installed cert.

Reference:

http://community.godaddy.com/help/5238