How to disable SSL certificate checking with Spring RestTemplate?

I wish I still had a link to the source that lead me in this direction, but this is the code that ended up working for me. By looking over the JavaDoc for X509TrustManager it looks like the way the TrustManagers work is by returning nothing on successful validation, otherwise throwing an exception. Thus, with a null implementation, it is treated as a successful validation. Then you remove all other implementations.

import javax.net.ssl.*;
import java.security.*;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

public final class SSLUtil{

    private static final TrustManager[] UNQUESTIONING_TRUST_MANAGER = 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 ){}
            }
        };

    public  static void turnOffSslChecking() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
        // Install the all-trusting trust manager
        final SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        sc.init( null, UNQUESTIONING_TRUST_MANAGER, null );
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    }

    public static void turnOnSslChecking() throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
        // Return it to the initial state (discovered by reflection, now hardcoded)
        SSLContext.getInstance("SSL").init( null, null, null );
    }

    private SSLUtil(){
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException( "Do not instantiate libraries.");
    }
}

For the sake of other developers who finds this question and need another solution that fits not only for unit-tests:

I've found this on a blog (not my solution! Credit to the blog's owner).

TrustStrategy acceptingTrustStrategy = (X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) -> true;

SSLContext sslContext = org.apache.http.ssl.SSLContexts.custom()
        .loadTrustMaterial(null, acceptingTrustStrategy)
        .build();

SSLConnectionSocketFactory csf = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext);

CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.custom()
        .setSSLSocketFactory(csf)
        .build();

HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory requestFactory =
        new HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory();

requestFactory.setHttpClient(httpClient);

RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate(requestFactory);

Please see below for a modest improvement on @Sled's code shown above, that turn-back-on method was missing one line, now it passes my tests. This disables HTTPS certificate and hostname spoofing when using RestTemplate in a Spring-Boot version 2 application that uses the default HTTP configuration, NOT configured to use Apache HTTP Client.

package org.my.little.spring-boot-v2.app;

import java.security.KeyManagementException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

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;

/**
 * Disables and enables certificate and host-name checking in
 * HttpsURLConnection, the default JVM implementation of the HTTPS/TLS protocol.
 * Has no effect on implementations such as Apache Http Client, Ok Http.
*/
public final class SSLUtils {

    private static final HostnameVerifier jvmHostnameVerifier = HttpsURLConnection.getDefaultHostnameVerifier();

    private static final HostnameVerifier trivialHostnameVerifier = new HostnameVerifier() {
        public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession sslSession) {
            return true;
        }
    };

    private static final TrustManager[] UNQUESTIONING_TRUST_MANAGER = 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) {
        }
    } };

    public static void turnOffSslChecking() throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, KeyManagementException {
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(trivialHostnameVerifier);
        // Install the all-trusting trust manager
        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        sc.init(null, UNQUESTIONING_TRUST_MANAGER, null);
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    }

    public static void turnOnSslChecking() throws KeyManagementException, NoSuchAlgorithmException {
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(jvmHostnameVerifier);
        // Return it to the initial state (discovered by reflection, now hardcoded)
        SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
        sc.init(null, null, null);
        HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());
    }

    private SSLUtils() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Do not instantiate libraries.");
    }
}