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Java™ by example!
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How do I download a secure page (HTTPS) with Java?
If you try to get data from an HTTPS-enabled page, you will get a MalformedURLException, as shown in following example: Main.java:
outputs:
This is because Sun has no implementation for the HTTPS protocol in their core libraries. However, they created an reference implementation called Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE) available as seperate download at http://java.sun.com/products/jsse. Include jcert.jar, jnet.jar and jsse.jar in your classpath and add the following two lines of code to the previous program:
Here's the updated example that works:
Further Information
Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert
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