WLResourceRequest over SSL with untrusted certificate - ibm-mobilefirst

We are developing an hybrid application ( Android , iOS )
and we are facing an issue communicating with our backend services.
We are using untrusted certificate in the development environment and this lead to an error invoking the services using WLResourceRequest in the hybrid code.
The error on the android platform is the following:
java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
And reading from android logcat comes out this:
04-20 12:50:04.300 9427-9450/com.myApp D/wl.resource_request: WLResourceRequest.handleOnFailure in WLResourceRequest.java:658 :: Unexpected errorCode occurred. Please try again.
04-20 12:50:04.308 9427-9450/com.myApp D/com.worklight.androidgap.plugin.WLResourceRequestPlugin: WLResourceRequestPlugin$1$1.onFailure in WLResourceRequestPlugin.java:92 :: inside WLResourceRequestPlugin failure
How can we manage to pass through the certificate validation? or is there something we can do to properly invoke the services?

You can overcome this by adding the CA certificate to your device.
Go to Settings -> Security -> Install from SD card and install the CA certificate to the device.

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Used a browser to export the self-signed certificate Hybris was using to a file.
Used Ikeyman to import the certificate into cacerts. (There are instructions on how to do this in IBM's pages).
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I try to test MeteorJS on Windows. I downloaded the last version of Meteor (1.5.2).
At my workplace, when I tryed to create a new project with "meteor create simple-todos", as Admin or not, I had an error:
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I am trying to encrypt the push sender password in application-descriptor following Storing properties in encrypted format section of the tutorial.
However, when building the wlapp for iOS, I see following error message in Worklight Studio.
FWLST1040E: iphone build failed: com.worklight.common.util.WorklightCertificateException: Certificate error: Unable to process certificate: apns-certificate-production.p12
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As far as I understand, the encrypted/configurable fields should be decrypted/replaced at server side during run time, not during the build. Right now, I am not able to build a new wlapp for ios because of this issue.
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Worklight 6.2:
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MobileFirst 6,3 7.0:
The same steps as above fail with:
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I have opened a bug for it.
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Worklight 6.0 application using SSL

Worklight 6.0.0, targeting iPad.
I have a simple demonstration application, no authentication at present. I am demonstrating use of reverse proxy. So I am building my application using the Build for Remote Server workaround and can see in xcode the correct server specification. I have some adapter calls, but for a particular demo scenario I also want to make an explicit call to
WL.Client.connect( ... );
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http://192.168.0.19/MyApp/apps/services/api/Work01/ipad/init
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https://192.168.0.19:443/Infrabel01/apps/services/api/Work01/ipad/init
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> [ERROR ] FWLSE0059E: Login into realm 'NullLoginModule' failed. The
> environment 'ipad' supports multiple versions, therefore you must
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> environment 'ipad' supports multiple versions, therefore you must
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> FWLSE0117E: Error code: 4, error description: AUTHENTICATION_ERROR,
> error message: An Error occurred while performing authentication using loginModule
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> [project Infrabel01]
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I had the same problem.
I have solved it by using the real IP address of the server in the WL app instead of using localhost:
When the emulator is running your app, press the Menu button.
Select to change your server URL
Remove "localhost" and use the IP address.
Accept and try again.
This fixed my problem.
Please make sure your Worklight server or proxy server is enabled SSL with certificate which signed by a trust public CA like Verisign. Worklight not support private CA certificate.