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An end user reported that he had problem with authenticating with HTTPS. The problem was eventually resolved when he discovered the HTTPS server did not return a HTTP code 401 Authorization Required. The solution was to set the following URI option: httpClient.authenticationPreemptive=true

Accepting self signed certifications from remote server

See this link from a mailing list discussion with some code to outline how to do this with the Apache Commons HTTP API.

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