howto-create-https-connections-to-servers-with-self-signed-certificates-using-apache-jakarta-commons-httpclient-package

http://orangevolt.com/wordpress/archives/2005/01/19/howto-create-https-connections-to-servers-with-self-signed-certificates-using-apache-jakarta-commons-httpclient-package/

Some say this is the fastest - http://ruedigermoeller.github.io/kontraktor/