# Elasticsearch client defaulting to http

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-client-defaulting-to-http/122732>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 6, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-client-defaulting-to-http/122732 "2018-03-06T15:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![wandermonk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wandermonk/32/27338_2.png) [@wandermonk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wandermonk)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 3:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-client-defaulting-to-http/122732/1 "2018-03-06T15:08:56Z")

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We hosted our elasticsearch cluster in AWS. We do not have port number exposed to the clients using elastic datastore. Whenever we instantiate the RestClient using the hostname, the client is defaulting to 'HTTP' rather than 'HTTPs'.

Our host is exposed to Https.

```
public RestClient getClient() throws Exception 
{
   return RestClient.builder(new HttpHost(_hostName)).build();
}

```

Please find the logs for more details.

> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 DEBUG InternalIODispatch:85 - http-outgoing-0 [ACTIVE] [content length: 94; pos: 94; completed: true]  
> org.elasticsearch.client.ResponseException: method [PUT], host [[http://ge3jo3ij4fkxjoe334q65j3tna.us-east-2.es.amazonaws.com](http://ge3jo3ij4fkxjoe334q65j3tna.us-east-2.es.amazonaws.com)], URI [/diagnostics/inv/diatest2], status line [HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden]  
> {"Message":"User: anonymous is not authorized to perform: es:ESHttpPut on resource: sdsessec"}  
> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 ERROR ElasticSearchDAO:36 - ElasticSearchContext : es\_index: /diagnostics/inv/ ------\> method [PUT], host [[http://ge3jo3ij4fkxjoe334q65j3tna.us-east-2.es.amazonaws.com](http://ge3jo3ij4fkxjoe334q65j3tna.us-east-2.es.amazonaws.com)], URI [/diagnostics/inv/diatest2], status line [HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden]  
> {"Message":"User: anonymous is not authorized to perform: es:ESHttpPut on resource: sdsessec"}  
> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 DEBUG PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager:203 - Connection manager is shutting down  
> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 DEBUG ManagedNHttpClientConnectionImpl:123 - http-outgoing-0 [ACTIVE][r:r]: Close  
> at org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient$1.completed(RestClient.java:355)  
> at org.elasticsearch.client.RestClient$1.completed(RestClient.java:344)  
> at org.apache.http.concurrent.BasicFuture.completed(BasicFuture.java:119)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.DefaultClientExchangeHandlerImpl.responseCompleted(DefaultClientExchangeHandlerImpl.java:177)  
> at org.apache.http.nio.protocol.HttpAsyncRequestExecutor.processResponse(HttpAsyncRequestExecutor.java:436)  
> at org.apache.http.nio.protocol.HttpAsyncRequestExecutor.inputReady(HttpAsyncRequestExecutor.java:326)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.InternalRequestExecutor.inputReady(InternalRequestExecutor.java:83)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.DefaultNHttpClientConnection.consumeInput(DefaultNHttpClientConnection.java:265)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.InternalIODispatch.onInputReady(InternalIODispatch.java:81)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.client.InternalIODispatch.onInputReady(InternalIODispatch.java:39)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIODispatch.inputReady(AbstractIODispatch.java:114)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.readable(BaseIOReactor.java:162)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvent(AbstractIOReactor.java:337)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.processEvents(AbstractIOReactor.java:315)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractIOReactor.execute(AbstractIOReactor.java:276)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.BaseIOReactor.execute(BaseIOReactor.java:104)  
> at org.apache.http.impl.nio.reactor.AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor$Worker.run(AbstractMultiworkerIOReactor.java:588)  
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)  
> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 DEBUG InternalIODispatch:62 - http-outgoing-0 [CLOSED]: Disconnected  
> 2018-03-06 20:20:48 DEBUG PoolingNHttpClientConnectionManager:205 - Connection manager shut down

Is this the behavior of the RestClient or am I missing something here? Please help.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-client-defaulting-to-http/122732/2 "2018-03-06T15:29:48Z")

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My guess is that you are missing some authentification here.

BTW did you look at [cloud.elastic.co](http://cloud.elastic.co) and [https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK) ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2018, 3:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-client-defaulting-to-http/122732/3 "2018-04-03T15:31:03Z")

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