diff --git a/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java b/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java
index e264f1c4..66a5121 100644
--- a/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java
+++ b/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/AbstractVerifier.java
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
 
-import javax.net.ssl.DistinguishedNameParser;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLException;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocket;
diff --git a/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/DistinguishedNameParser.java b/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/DistinguishedNameParser.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2d0e3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/java/org/apache/http/conn/ssl/DistinguishedNameParser.java
@@ -0,0 +1,480 @@
+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.http.conn.ssl;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.List;
+import javax.security.auth.x500.X500Principal;
+
+/**
+ * A distinguished name (DN) parser. This parser only supports extracting a
+ * string value from a DN. It doesn't support values in the hex-string style.
+ *
+ * @hide
+ */
+@Deprecated
+final class DistinguishedNameParser {
+    private final String dn;
+    private final int length;
+    private int pos;
+    private int beg;
+    private int end;
+
+    /** tmp vars to store positions of the currently parsed item */
+    private int cur;
+
+    /** distinguished name chars */
+    private char[] chars;
+
+    public DistinguishedNameParser(X500Principal principal) {
+        // RFC2253 is used to ensure we get attributes in the reverse
+        // order of the underlying ASN.1 encoding, so that the most
+        // significant values of repeated attributes occur first.
+        this.dn = principal.getName(X500Principal.RFC2253);
+        this.length = this.dn.length();
+    }
+
+    // gets next attribute type: (ALPHA 1*keychar) / oid
+    private String nextAT() {
+        // skip preceding space chars, they can present after
+        // comma or semicolon (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+        for (; pos < length && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+        }
+        if (pos == length) {
+            return null; // reached the end of DN
+        }
+
+        // mark the beginning of attribute type
+        beg = pos;
+
+        // attribute type chars
+        pos++;
+        for (; pos < length && chars[pos] != '=' && chars[pos] != ' '; pos++) {
+            // we don't follow exact BNF syntax here:
+            // accept any char except space and '='
+        }
+        if (pos >= length) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        // mark the end of attribute type
+        end = pos;
+
+        // skip trailing space chars between attribute type and '='
+        // (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+        if (chars[pos] == ' ') {
+            for (; pos < length && chars[pos] != '=' && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+            }
+
+            if (chars[pos] != '=' || pos == length) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+            }
+        }
+
+        pos++; //skip '=' char
+
+        // skip space chars between '=' and attribute value
+        // (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+        for (; pos < length && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+        }
+
+        // in case of oid attribute type skip its prefix: "oid." or "OID."
+        // (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+        if ((end - beg > 4) && (chars[beg + 3] == '.')
+                && (chars[beg] == 'O' || chars[beg] == 'o')
+                && (chars[beg + 1] == 'I' || chars[beg + 1] == 'i')
+                && (chars[beg + 2] == 'D' || chars[beg + 2] == 'd')) {
+            beg += 4;
+        }
+
+        return new String(chars, beg, end - beg);
+    }
+
+    // gets quoted attribute value: QUOTATION *( quotechar / pair ) QUOTATION
+    private String quotedAV() {
+        pos++;
+        beg = pos;
+        end = beg;
+        while (true) {
+
+            if (pos == length) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+            }
+
+            if (chars[pos] == '"') {
+                // enclosing quotation was found
+                pos++;
+                break;
+            } else if (chars[pos] == '\\') {
+                chars[end] = getEscaped();
+            } else {
+                // shift char: required for string with escaped chars
+                chars[end] = chars[pos];
+            }
+            pos++;
+            end++;
+        }
+
+        // skip trailing space chars before comma or semicolon.
+        // (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+        for (; pos < length && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+        }
+
+        return new String(chars, beg, end - beg);
+    }
+
+    // gets hex string attribute value: "#" hexstring
+    private String hexAV() {
+        if (pos + 4 >= length) {
+            // encoded byte array  must be not less then 4 c
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        beg = pos; // store '#' position
+        pos++;
+        while (true) {
+
+            // check for end of attribute value
+            // looks for space and component separators
+            if (pos == length || chars[pos] == '+' || chars[pos] == ','
+                    || chars[pos] == ';') {
+                end = pos;
+                break;
+            }
+
+            if (chars[pos] == ' ') {
+                end = pos;
+                pos++;
+                // skip trailing space chars before comma or semicolon.
+                // (compatibility with RFC 1779)
+                for (; pos < length && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+                }
+                break;
+            } else if (chars[pos] >= 'A' && chars[pos] <= 'F') {
+                chars[pos] += 32; //to low case
+            }
+
+            pos++;
+        }
+
+        // verify length of hex string
+        // encoded byte array  must be not less then 4 and must be even number
+        int hexLen = end - beg; // skip first '#' char
+        if (hexLen < 5 || (hexLen & 1) == 0) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        // get byte encoding from string representation
+        byte[] encoded = new byte[hexLen / 2];
+        for (int i = 0, p = beg + 1; i < encoded.length; p += 2, i++) {
+            encoded[i] = (byte) getByte(p);
+        }
+
+        return new String(chars, beg, hexLen);
+    }
+
+    // gets string attribute value: *( stringchar / pair )
+    private String escapedAV() {
+        beg = pos;
+        end = pos;
+        while (true) {
+            if (pos >= length) {
+                // the end of DN has been found
+                return new String(chars, beg, end - beg);
+            }
+
+            switch (chars[pos]) {
+            case '+':
+            case ',':
+            case ';':
+                // separator char has been found
+                return new String(chars, beg, end - beg);
+            case '\\':
+                // escaped char
+                chars[end++] = getEscaped();
+                pos++;
+                break;
+            case ' ':
+                // need to figure out whether space defines
+                // the end of attribute value or not
+                cur = end;
+
+                pos++;
+                chars[end++] = ' ';
+
+                for (; pos < length && chars[pos] == ' '; pos++) {
+                    chars[end++] = ' ';
+                }
+                if (pos == length || chars[pos] == ',' || chars[pos] == '+'
+                        || chars[pos] == ';') {
+                    // separator char or the end of DN has been found
+                    return new String(chars, beg, cur - beg);
+                }
+                break;
+            default:
+                chars[end++] = chars[pos];
+                pos++;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    // returns escaped char
+    private char getEscaped() {
+        pos++;
+        if (pos == length) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Unexpected end of DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        switch (chars[pos]) {
+        case '"':
+        case '\\':
+        case ',':
+        case '=':
+        case '+':
+        case '<':
+        case '>':
+        case '#':
+        case ';':
+        case ' ':
+        case '*':
+        case '%':
+        case '_':
+            //FIXME: escaping is allowed only for leading or trailing space char
+            return chars[pos];
+        default:
+            // RFC doesn't explicitly say that escaped hex pair is
+            // interpreted as UTF-8 char. It only contains an example of such DN.
+            return getUTF8();
+        }
+    }
+
+    // decodes UTF-8 char
+    // see http://www.unicode.org for UTF-8 bit distribution table
+    private char getUTF8() {
+        int res = getByte(pos);
+        pos++; //FIXME tmp
+
+        if (res < 128) { // one byte: 0-7F
+            return (char) res;
+        } else if (res >= 192 && res <= 247) {
+
+            int count;
+            if (res <= 223) { // two bytes: C0-DF
+                count = 1;
+                res = res & 0x1F;
+            } else if (res <= 239) { // three bytes: E0-EF
+                count = 2;
+                res = res & 0x0F;
+            } else { // four bytes: F0-F7
+                count = 3;
+                res = res & 0x07;
+            }
+
+            int b;
+            for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
+                pos++;
+                if (pos == length || chars[pos] != '\\') {
+                    return 0x3F; //FIXME failed to decode UTF-8 char - return '?'
+                }
+                pos++;
+
+                b = getByte(pos);
+                pos++; //FIXME tmp
+                if ((b & 0xC0) != 0x80) {
+                    return 0x3F; //FIXME failed to decode UTF-8 char - return '?'
+                }
+
+                res = (res << 6) + (b & 0x3F);
+            }
+            return (char) res;
+        } else {
+            return 0x3F; //FIXME failed to decode UTF-8 char - return '?'
+        }
+    }
+
+    // Returns byte representation of a char pair
+    // The char pair is composed of DN char in
+    // specified 'position' and the next char
+    // According to BNF syntax:
+    // hexchar    = DIGIT / "A" / "B" / "C" / "D" / "E" / "F"
+    //                    / "a" / "b" / "c" / "d" / "e" / "f"
+    private int getByte(int position) {
+        if (position + 1 >= length) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        int b1, b2;
+
+        b1 = chars[position];
+        if (b1 >= '0' && b1 <= '9') {
+            b1 = b1 - '0';
+        } else if (b1 >= 'a' && b1 <= 'f') {
+            b1 = b1 - 87; // 87 = 'a' - 10
+        } else if (b1 >= 'A' && b1 <= 'F') {
+            b1 = b1 - 55; // 55 = 'A' - 10
+        } else {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        b2 = chars[position + 1];
+        if (b2 >= '0' && b2 <= '9') {
+            b2 = b2 - '0';
+        } else if (b2 >= 'a' && b2 <= 'f') {
+            b2 = b2 - 87; // 87 = 'a' - 10
+        } else if (b2 >= 'A' && b2 <= 'F') {
+            b2 = b2 - 55; // 55 = 'A' - 10
+        } else {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+        }
+
+        return (b1 << 4) + b2;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parses the DN and returns the most significant attribute value
+     * for an attribute type, or null if none found.
+     *
+     * @param attributeType attribute type to look for (e.g. "ca")
+     */
+    public String findMostSpecific(String attributeType) {
+        // Initialize internal state.
+        pos = 0;
+        beg = 0;
+        end = 0;
+        cur = 0;
+        chars = dn.toCharArray();
+
+        String attType = nextAT();
+        if (attType == null) {
+            return null;
+        }
+        while (true) {
+            String attValue = "";
+
+            if (pos == length) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            switch (chars[pos]) {
+            case '"':
+                attValue = quotedAV();
+                break;
+            case '#':
+                attValue = hexAV();
+                break;
+            case '+':
+            case ',':
+            case ';': // compatibility with RFC 1779: semicolon can separate RDNs
+                //empty attribute value
+                break;
+            default:
+                attValue = escapedAV();
+            }
+
+            // Values are ordered from most specific to least specific
+            // due to the RFC2253 formatting. So take the first match
+            // we see.
+            if (attributeType.equalsIgnoreCase(attType)) {
+                return attValue;
+            }
+
+            if (pos >= length) {
+                return null;
+            }
+
+            if (chars[pos] == ',' || chars[pos] == ';') {
+            } else if (chars[pos] != '+') {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+            }
+
+            pos++;
+            attType = nextAT();
+            if (attType == null) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Parses the DN and returns all values for an attribute type, in
+     * the order of decreasing significance (most significant first).
+     *
+     * @param attributeType attribute type to look for (e.g. "ca")
+     */
+    public List<String> getAllMostSpecificFirst(String attributeType) {
+        // Initialize internal state.
+        pos = 0;
+        beg = 0;
+        end = 0;
+        cur = 0;
+        chars = dn.toCharArray();
+        List<String> result = Collections.emptyList();
+
+        String attType = nextAT();
+        if (attType == null) {
+            return result;
+        }
+        while (pos < length) {
+            String attValue = "";
+
+            switch (chars[pos]) {
+            case '"':
+                attValue = quotedAV();
+                break;
+            case '#':
+                attValue = hexAV();
+                break;
+            case '+':
+            case ',':
+            case ';': // compatibility with RFC 1779: semicolon can separate RDNs
+                //empty attribute value
+                break;
+            default:
+                attValue = escapedAV();
+            }
+
+            // Values are ordered from most specific to least specific
+            // due to the RFC2253 formatting. So take the first match
+            // we see.
+            if (attributeType.equalsIgnoreCase(attType)) {
+                if (result.isEmpty()) {
+                    result = new ArrayList<String>();
+                }
+                result.add(attValue);
+            }
+
+            if (pos >= length) {
+                break;
+            }
+
+            if (chars[pos] == ',' || chars[pos] == ';') {
+            } else if (chars[pos] != '+') {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+            }
+
+            pos++;
+            attType = nextAT();
+            if (attType == null) {
+                throw new IllegalStateException("Malformed DN: " + dn);
+            }
+        }
+
+        return result;
+    }
+}