import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.security.cert.X509Certificate;

import javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier;
import javax.net.ssl.SSLContext;

import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.config.Registry;
import org.apache.http.config.RegistryBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.ConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLConnectionSocketFactory;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLContextBuilder;
import org.apache.http.conn.ssl.TrustStrategy;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager;

/**
 * Code copied from: http://literatejava.com/networks/ignore-ssl-certificate-errors-apache-httpclient-4-4/
 * 
 * This code will not work with OSX JVM 1.6 but does seem to work with Oracle 1.8 on OSX
 */
public class TestHttpClient45IgnoreSSLErrors
{
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
   {
      HttpClientBuilder b = HttpClientBuilder.create();

      // setup a Trust Strategy that allows all certificates.
      //
      SSLContext sslContext = new SSLContextBuilder().loadTrustMaterial(null, new TrustStrategy()
         {
            public boolean isTrusted(X509Certificate[] arg0, String arg1) throws CertificateException
            {
               return true;
            }
         }).build();
      b.setSslcontext(sslContext);

      // don't check Hostnames, either.
      //      -- use SSLConnectionSocketFactory.getDefaultHostnameVerifier(), if you don't want to weaken
      HostnameVerifier hostnameVerifier = SSLConnectionSocketFactory.ALLOW_ALL_HOSTNAME_VERIFIER;

      // here's the special part:
      //      -- need to create an SSL Socket Factory, to use our weakened "trust strategy";
      //      -- and create a Registry, to register it.
      //
      SSLConnectionSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = new SSLConnectionSocketFactory(sslContext, hostnameVerifier);
      Registry<ConnectionSocketFactory> socketFactoryRegistry = RegistryBuilder.<ConnectionSocketFactory> create().register("http", PlainConnectionSocketFactory.getSocketFactory()).register("https", sslSocketFactory).build();

      // now, we create connection-manager using our Registry.
      //      -- allows multi-threaded use
      PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager connMgr = new PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager(socketFactoryRegistry);
      b.setConnectionManager(connMgr);

      // finally, build the HttpClient;
      //      -- done!
      HttpClient client = b.build();

      HttpGet get = new HttpGet("https://yoursitehere.com");
      //get.setFollowRedirects(true);

      HttpResponse response = client.execute(get);
      HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
      
      //if you got this far, you made it.

   }

}