Unexpected error when trying to find extension

I was trying to install the demo user authentication extension, but I had a problem. Can someone help me? Here is what I did:

  1. I installed xwiki 10.0 distribution
  2. Refer to https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/AdminGuide/Authentication/, download the code of https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/sandbox/tree/master/authenticators/xwiki-authentication-headers
  3. Run maven install, build a jar file (xwiki-authentication-headers-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar)
  4. Put the jar file under WEB-INF/lib
  5. Add xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xwiki.authentication.headers.XWikiHeadersAuthenticator in xwiki.cfg
  6. Restart xwiki
  7. Then comes the following error logs:

[Core extension repository updater] ERROR aultExtensionRepositoryManager - Unexpected error when trying to find extension [com.xwiki.authentication:xwiki-authentication-headers/1.0-SNAPSHOT] in repository [store.xwiki.com:xwiki:https://store.xwiki.com/xwiki/rest]
org.xwiki.extension.ResolveException: Failed to create extension object for extension [com.xwiki.authentication:xwiki-authentication-headers/1.0-SNAPSHOT]
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.resolve(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:344)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.internal.DefaultExtensionRepositoryManager.resolve(DefaultExtensionRepositoryManager.java:286)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.internal.core.DefaultCoreExtensionScanner.updateExtensions(DefaultCoreExtensionScanner.java:116)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.internal.core.DefaultCoreExtensionRepository$1.run(DefaultCoreExtensionRepository.java:138)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Failed to request [https://store.xwiki.com/xwiki/rest/repository/extensions/com.xwiki.authentication%3Axwiki-authentication-headers/versions/1.0-SNAPSHOT]
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.getRESTResource(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:247)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.getRESTObject(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:305)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.resolve(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:350)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.resolve(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:340)
… 4 common frames omitted
Caused by: 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
at sun.security.ssl.Alerts.getSSLException(Alerts.java:192)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.fatal(SSLSocketImpl.java:1949)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:302)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.fatalSE(Handshaker.java:296)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1509)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.processMessage(ClientHandshaker.java:216)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.processLoop(Handshaker.java:979)
at sun.security.ssl.Handshaker.process_record(Handshaker.java:914)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.readRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:1062)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.performInitialHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1375)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1403)
at sun.security.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.startHandshake(SSLSocketImpl.java:1387)
at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.createLayeredSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:396)
at org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(SSLConnectionSocketFactory.java:355)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:142)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:373)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:381)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:237)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:185)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:111)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:83)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:108)
at org.xwiki.extension.repository.xwiki.internal.XWikiExtensionRepository.getRESTResource(XWikiExtensionRepository.java:244)
… 7 common frames omitted
Caused by: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:387)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.engineValidate(PKIXValidator.java:230)
at sun.security.validator.Validator.validate(Validator.java:260)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.validate(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:324)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:229)
at sun.security.ssl.X509TrustManagerImpl.checkServerTrusted(X509TrustManagerImpl.java:124)
at sun.security.ssl.ClientHandshaker.serverCertificate(ClientHandshaker.java:1491)
… 27 common frames omitted
Caused by: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.build(SunCertPathBuilder.java:146)
at sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilder.engineBuild(SunCertPathBuilder.java:131)
at java.security.cert.CertPathBuilder.build(CertPathBuilder.java:280)
at sun.security.validator.PKIXValidator.doBuild(PKIXValidator.java:382)
… 33 common frames omitted

Are you using a version of Java lower than 8u101 ?

Yes. I updated Java and the error goes away.